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The University of Michigan Medical School will receive $4 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to support the U-M's new program in bioinformatics.

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University of Michigan researchers unveiled a model that relates seismic velocity differences to properties of the mantle.

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A research team, led by a University of Michigan Health System investigator, is launching a study to examine whether POWs realize positive outcomes from their traumatic experiences. .

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The University of Michigan College of Engineering has entered into talks to form a unique partnership with a new Scottish Centre of Engineering Excellence being formed in Edinburgh.

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U-M researchers are learning how bubbles in volcanic magma cause sudden hurling of rocks and spewing of poisonous gases. The process is called fragmentation and can be described as a type of brittle failure.

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According to a University of Michigan scientist, the world's second largest tropical rain forest is dying. Its death will mean the disappearance of a unique ecosystem and the loss could have a global financial impact.

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The frenzy of holiday shopping that comes over the country at this time of year is not just an expression of crass consumerism, according to a University of Michigan anthropologist.

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Overall private-agency adoptions in Michigan were up 2 percent in 1998--thanks to recent national efforts to increase permanent placements of older children, says a University of Michigan researcher.

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Not only do disease and disability lead to depressed symptoms, but depressive symptoms seem to be a precursor of the development of future disease, U-M study of older American shows.

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The Combination of a still-strong U.S. economy, strengthening economies abroad, and the gathering evidence that tight labor and tightening materials markets are tipping the balance toward increasing inflationary pressures.

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A new analysis of data collected by the Galileo spacecraft's suicide plunge into Jupiter's roiling atmosphere has stamped a huge question mark over the prevailing models of how our solar system formed, according to an international team of scientist.

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University of Michigan scientists have discovered how some viruses can hide inside the nucleus of human cells for long periods of time---without producing symptoms or triggering an immune response---by attaching to host cell chromosomes.

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While the number of Americans on welfare has dropped significantly since Congress passed the 1996 welfare reform law, many former recipients still live in poverty.

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A new method to accelerate ions, using powerful light from a table-top laser instead of the radio-frequency waves that have been used for ion acceleration.

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A nerve test widely used to diagnose carpal tunnel syndrome should not be relied upon to give a "yes-no" answer to the question of whether a person has the painful hand condition, a new University of Michigan study says.

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Depression is being identified as one of the most expensive occupational health costs for business. A new review of studies focuses on the factors of depression and the cost of depression it the work place.

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A new study about a population whose needs have been overlooked by welfare reform: those with mental health problems and those who suffer from drug dependence.

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When young adults are asked to remember a list of words, then to do a math problem, they use areas in the front of the brain and towards the back of both hemispheres---the visual cortices. But when older adults perform the same tasks, they are more likely to use an area on the left front side of the brain -- the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.

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A new University of Michigan research center, funded by a $10 million grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) will allow U-M researchers to delve deeper into research on the detrimental health effects of being poor.

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A certain phenomenon, which can occur during heart monitoring, may cause patients to undergo unnecessary procedures on their heart.

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Research by a University of Michigan team suggests ways of enhancing the mechanical properties of engineered tissues.

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Living in cities with high levels of racial segregation is linked to higher death rates for whites as well as Blacks.

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Colleges and universities recognize that diversity is a desirable goal and an integral component of offering a higher quality education, but they are finding that diversity comes with a price.

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University of Michigan scientists will receive $4.4 million from the National Cancer Institute to develop an innovative approach to cancer treatment --nanomolecular "smart bombs" that sense pre-malignant and cancerous changes inside living cells and then destroy the cells before they can grow into tumors.

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Truckers are not to blame for most fatal crashes involving trucks and passenger vehicles, say researchers. In a study of national crash data on fatal two-vehicle accidents involving a heavy truck, data shows that the actions of drivers of passenger vehicles alone contribute to 70 percent of the crashes.

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Two-thirds of the U.S. teens and young adults studied say they feel stressed at least once a week, and one-third say they're stressed every day. School may not be the problem.

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A surprising percentage of doctors are not following national guidelines that could help them treat patients better because they don't have enough information, time, or readiness to change -- or confidence in their ability to do what the guidelines recommend.

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U-M is moving to a new level of involvement with the JOI, which manages the scientific planning and operations for the Ocean Drilling Program, the largest international geosciences program in the world.

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Armed with the knowledge that most cases of periodontal disease are actually treatable bacterial infections, dental researchers and clinicians are changing their ideas about how to deal with the problem.

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Although 40 percent of patients in a new study regularly use e-mail, only 14 percent of them have used it to communicate with their doctors. But 70 percent of patients surveyed -- including those without e-mail -- say they want to communicate with their health care provider via e-mail.

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Proteins produced by cancer cells may someday give doctors new ways to find tumors earlier, determine how malignant they are and target them with custom therapies. Now, a $10 million effort will explore this new area using the latest technology and biomedical knowledge.

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Martinus J.G. Veltman, Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, has been awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in physics. Veltman's work made it possible for physicists to mathematically predict properties of the sub-atomic particles that make up all matter in the universe and the forces that hold these particles together.

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Seeing the complex picture of the world's carbon budget -- where human activity releases greenhouse gases, and where the Earth's natural systems gobble them back up again -- is fraught with technical problems.

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Some candles on the market today are made with wicks that have either lead or lead cores that emit potentially dangerous levels of lead into the air.

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New guidelines will help millions of people with clogged arteries decide, with their doctors, if bypass surgery will help them live longer and better, or if they face too many potential complications and should opt for another approach.

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If prescription drug coverage were added to Medicare, older Americans who do not currently have insurance covering prescriptions would be more likely to use prescription drugs, and overall spending on prescription drugs would increase. Those are among the findings of a new study estimating how insurance coverage affects demand for prescription drugs.

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From stem cells to cord blood, bone marrow transplant experts from the U.S. and Europe will discuss the future of their field at a symposium at the University of Michigan on October 22.

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As part of its 150th anniversary, the University of Michigan Medical School will host a symposium to discuss the state of graduate medical education, from residency to specialized scientific training.

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Stressed-out mice created at the University of Michigan Medical School are helping scientists understand how the body's fight-or-flight response to stress also may be involved in depression, anxiety disorders and anorexia. U-M scientists created the new mouse strain by deleting a gene that controls production of one protein.

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The University of Michigan will receive $5 million from the Warner-Lambert Company to help establish a new Program in Bioinformatics.

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Nearly one out of five suburbanites lives in a community that is less advantaged than nearby central cities, according to a new University of Michigan study.

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Yersinia pestis, the deadly bacterium that causes bubonic plague, kills by cutting off a cell's ability to communicate with other immune system cells needed to fight off the bacterial invasion. University of Michigan scientists identify one protein responsible for the plague's lethal effect and the molecular family it targets.

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Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified two genes that may control the development of inflammatory breast cancer---an aggressive, often lethal, form of the disease.

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How much time young people spend watching television isn't as important an influence on their sexual attitudes, expectations, and behavior as how involved they are in what they're viewing---how much they identify with the characters, and how realistic they believe a TV show is.

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A birth that isn't wanted not only has a negative effect on a mother's emotional well-being and on her early relationship with that child; the harmful effects last after the child has become an adult, and extend as well to the other children in the family, according to a University of Michigan study.

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When women are blue, sad or mad, they are more likely than men to think about their problems in a repetitive, unhelpful way. When men are down or depressed, they're more likely than women to hit the bottle.

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U-M classics Prof. David S. Potter, whose research and most recent book concentrates on "Life, Death, and Entertainment in Ancient Rome," was the star of an hour-long special on "Blood Sports: The Life of a Gladiator" on The Learning Channel in February.

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Heart failure patients once thought too sick for most surgery may now have a chance to have their ailing hearts repaired in the first clinical trial of a promising mitral-valve repair procedure developed at the University of Michigan Health System.

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A psychological sense of belonging is a greater predictor of major depression than other factors commonly associated with depression, such as social support, conflict and loneliness.

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By testing the hearing of newborns whose health problems put them at special risk of hearing loss, doctors at the University of Michigan are catching and addressing infant hearing problems far better and less expensively than the national norm, according to a new report.