The Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, the nation's first new independent engineering college in nearly a half century, will dedicate its Needham, Mass., campus and inaugurate its founding president in dual ceremonies Saturday, May 3.
New research at North Carolina State University's College of Veterinary Medicine indicates that cloned pigs can have the same degree of variability in physical appearance and behavior as normally bred animals.
Administering estrogen replacement therapy via a skin patch rather than a pill minimizes a cardiovascular risk factor in postmenopausal women, according to researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have found that a single genetic mistake causes about two-thirds of papillary thyroid cancers.
The American Medical Group Association announced today that Daniel Boston will provide policy advisory and direct lobbying services for the association.
Last month, Vincent Rankin, then age 37, bought his casket and began planning his own funeral. The former television news assignment editor had virtually given up on receiving the heart transplant that would save his life.
Nature has many patterns and ecologists seek to both describe and understand them. Nature also is very complex. One challenge is to find patterns in that complexity and to ask whether simple explanations lie beneath them.
Progress in the understanding of multiple sclerosis, the treatment of epilepsy, the progression of Alzheimer's disease, the prevention of stroke, and even the neuroscience of golf were among the highlights of more than 1,300 scientific studies presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology.
Sandra Olson, MD, was elected president of the American Academy of Neurology at the AAN 55th Annual Meeting, held March 29 ˆ April 5 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
With the debate underway regarding post-war control of Iraq, a University of Michigan professor says the rebuilding efforts and political control should be handled by the United Nations, not the United States or another country.
News conference and telebriefing to provide the latest information on the investigation of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
New research led by a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientist shows for the first time how Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the germ responsible for TB, uses a system for releasing proteins to help it survive the lungs' immune defenses to spread and cause disease.
Sixteen years ago, Michael Dubois, 35, developed quadriplegia as a result of a diving accident. Today, he does award-winning volunteer work with elementary school children and holds a part-time job at Target Department Store, but is still living in a nursing home and waiting for the community based care services he applied for in 2000.
The American Medical Group Association announced today that Laird Burnett will provide strategic counsel, policy analysis, and direct lobbying services for the association.
100 million tons of coal combustion by-products are produced each year by burning coal to generate electricity. These by-products are a valuable resource and can be reused as raw materials for a wide variety of industries.
Researchers find that the bioluminescence effects of fireflies may kill cancer cells from within.
A new UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute study suggests that maternal depression, not antidepressant use, affects infant weight gain in the first six months after birth.
Scientists at The Institute for Genomic Research and their collaborators have deciphered and analyzed the complete genome sequence of Coxiella burnetii, a potential bioterror agent that causes Q Fever. The genome will help researchers better understand the pathogen's biology and its ability to cause disease.
The 5 million or so heart failure patients in this country traditionally have been treated with nitroglycerin or other drugs that release nitric oxide into the bloodstream. While these medicines increase the heart's ability to contract, they also blunt chemical signals allowing the heart to fully relax and pump most effectively.
The first sexual experience for many lesbians is with a man, reveals the largest UK survey of its kind.
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