Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and the James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine are reporting the development of a framework reference map of the canine genome. The map covers most of the canine genome. It was constructed from 150 microsatellite markers developed by the Seattle group and typed on pedigrees developed by the Cornell team.
A 'dispatcher' gene--described in the Dec. 12, 1997, issue of Science--seems to juggle assignments for many `sentry' genes in a model plant system and may ultimately help researchers design hardier, more disease-resistant food plants, a University of Delaware scientist says.
Annals of Internal Medicine TipSheet: 1) Isoniazid is recommended for tuberculosis patients with positive skin tests. 2) Women physicians use hormone replacement therapy in greater numbers than average female U.S. population. 3) Care of chronic illness can be improved through management by patients, families, physicians and health care systems. 4) ACP issues new lyme disease guidelines.
Food Chemistry Tip Sheet: 1. Soy-Based Infant Formulas Contain Beneficial Isoflavones 2. Sunflower Pectin Can Be Used for Low-Calorie Jellies 3. Epoxy from Can Copatings Found in Infant Formula Liquid Concentrates 4. Canadian Cured Meat Shows Little Decline in Nitrite Levels
President Clinton will present the nation's highest science and engineering honor, the National Medal of Science, to Marshall N. Rosenbluth, a nuclear physicist at the University of California, San Diego. Rosenbluth is one of fourteen oustanding scientists, inventors and business leaders being honored by the President on December 16 at a ceremony in the Old Executive Office Building.
An exaggerated response to mental stress could be a marker for future heart disease among people under age 60 with a strong family history of premature heart disease, according to a study by Johns Hopkins researchers.
Cholesterol-lowering drugs reduced heart attack risk in women and senior citizens by 34 percent -- about the same amount as in younger men, according to a report in today's American Heart Association journal Circulation.
One out of three women in a study were able to normalize their blood cholesterol levels by replacing regular canola margarine with one that contains a cholesterol-blocker called sitostanol ester, according to today's American Heart Association journal Circulation.
Stanford Business School--Of the many voices that compete for the chief executive's ear, one key source of influence is the board of directors, whose members also often sit on other company boards. These interlocking directors have firsthand, practical experience that can sway a CEO's strategic choices. But their influence wanes in the face of competing information.
A study by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center researchers of some 1,300 sixth through twelfth graders in NH and VT reveals that one-third of those students own items of the promotional gear that has been heavily hyped by several tobacco companies. This study supports FDA regulations to restrict the distribution of these items by tobacco companies.
The Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University has released this year's statistical probabilities chart for a white Christmas for major metropolitan areas and other selected cities in the Northeast. It is not a forecast.
Leaders of fraternities, and to a lesser extent leaders of sororities, tend to be among the heaviest drinkers and the most out-of-control partiers, according to researchers at Cornell University and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Their national survey of 25,411 students at 61 institutions reveals that Greek leaders are helping to set norms of binge drinking and uncontrolled behavior.
Electric utility customers will soon pick their power company, just as they now choose long-distance phone service. Two Johns Hopkins University researchers have studied the economic and environmental impact of utility deregulation and serve as consultants on the issue to such agencies as the World Bank and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. They are available to reporters for internviews on utility deregulation.
The predecessor of the Avon lady was a man, notes a University of Delaware historian currently completing a doctoral dissertation titled, "Avon Ladies and Fuller Brush Men: The Gendered Construction of Door-to-Door Selling, 1886-1970." Farm boy D.H. McConnell began his career in 1877 selling books door-to-door and giving away perfume samples as part of his sales pitch, reports Katina Manko, a graduate student in the University of Delaware-Hagley Museum Program.
Robert G. Webster, Ph.D., who played a key role in helping to identify the new Hong Kong influenza virus (H5N1), will be available to the media Monday morning, December 15, via telephone conference call following recent news of additional infections and a second death. Call 800-289-0730 and give the confirmation number 410960, or ask for the St. Jude conference.
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) researchers are using computer models and psychological testing to help reduce the number of medication errors caused by look-alike and sound-alike medication names.
Sometimes cells are supposed to die. When cells don't die when they are supposed to, the result is cancer. Pathologists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine report research that brings them closer to their goal of understanding the process of programmed cell death, which could lead to development of drugs to cause or prevent it as appropriate.
Research Triangle Institute has developed a new Internet-based assessment tool to help companies improve how they practice technology innovation. Innovation InsightsTM quantitatively measures how well the technical staff and management: a) listen to customers, b) share ideas & know-how within the company, and c) use outside technology to leverage R&D.
Nashville, Tenn. - Two Vanderbilt University mechanical engineering professors are developing a tiny insect-like robot, about a third the size of a credit card, which will have applications for military and intelligence-gathering missions.
When you trade stock, will it be on the NASDAQ, the NYSE, or the American Stock Exchange? Will it be in New York, London, Tokyo, or perhaps Bangkok or Paris? Electronic market access has made buying and selling the same security in more than one market an increasingly widespread practice both within and across countries, raising the issue of how markets should be regulated as stocks are traded around the clock and around the globe.
In the early 1990s, investors began pouring money into emerging stock markets such as Thailand, Indonesia, and Chile. Market watchers dubbed stocks in these burgeoning markets a "free lunch" because they offered both robust returns and a means to diversify and reduce risk in stock portfolios. These tiny emerging markets did not ride the waves of bourses in developed countries, thereby providing a hedge against drops in larger markets. But the recent dives in Asian stock markets beg the question: Is there ever really a free lunch? Finance professor Geert Bekaert thinks not"”at least not any more.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins and India find that a simple set of symptoms including fever, joint pain, and night sweats can quickly identify people who recently have been infected with the AIDS virus, even before there is evidence from a blood test. Unprotected sex with a prostitute and a fresh genital ulcer also are tip-offs to recent HIV infection.
During the holidays, people often eat foods they know will trigger their heartburn. How can people prevent heartburn and what are the signs that they could have a more serious condition such as gastroesophageal reflux disease?
While football players toss the pigskin on the field, physicians are using another part of the pig to tackle a knee injury often associated with sports. Clinical trials begin this month to test a new material derived from pigs' intestins that, when inserted in the human body, may help regenerate damaged tissues.
A really compact disk, the size of a penny, that packs as much information as 30 current CDs could be on the horizon if technology developed by Stephen Chou becomes commercialized. The University of Minnesota electrical engineering professor has found a way to store 400 billion bits (or 400 gigabits) of information in a square inch of CD space; this is 800 times the storage capacity of current CDs, which carry only half a gigabit per square inch.
Only one area of the continental U.S. has not been mapped --the Everglades. Now a team from the U.S. Park Service and the University of Georgia are in the final year of a mapping project.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved Meridia (sibutramine), a new diet drug that has chemical properties similar, but not identical, to Redux and fen/phen (Pondimin).
It used to be a rule that a thick envelope from a college was good news and a thin envelope was bad. That's no longer the case. Smaller schools are trying to keep the process as personal as possible.
Many high schools and colleges prepare lists of books and plays that they recommend students read in order to be better prepared for a college curriculum. Here are some suggestions for a literary hot sheet from colleges and universities around the nation.
New computer modeling suggests that global warming might not be entirely a product of human activity. The research shows that carbon and sulfur emissions can have the reverse effect, serving to cool down the planet.
Got milk? Yes, you do. Those television commercials in which some poor dupe gets too little milk too late are working well. A Cornell University study to be published in December indicates that thanks to heavy doses of advertising, more and more American consumers are buying fluid milk.
East Lansing, Mich. -- Someone call Tom Cruise. Based on safety belt use in the top movies of 1996, buckling up on the silver screen seems like "Mission: Impossible."
Innovative new treatments are reducing the cost of treating specific illnesses while saving more lives and improving the quality of life for patients, according to new research by economists and physicians.
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are creating and studying aerogels, substances so porous they are more air than solid material. When used as insulators on computer chips, these porous materials could more than double computing speeds.
John Grisham's The Rainmaker is a story about an insurance company that routinely denies coverage for medically necessary procedures. Unfortunately, this scenario doesn't just occur in books and movies. In a recent survey conducted by the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS), more than half of plastic surgeons polled reported insurance denial or trouble obtaining coverage of procedures for deformities, disfigurements and congenital defects in children.
Eliminating smoking in bars would increase business for these establishments, according to a study released Tuesday, December 2 at a New York City press briefing jointly sponsored by the American Medical Association and American Public Health Association. An overwhelming majority of Massachusetts adults - 89 percent - said that they would go out to bars just as often or more often than they do now if all bars were made smoke-free.
Researchers have answered a fundamental question about how G proteins, the cell's message relay switch, coordinate and control signals that determine cell activities. By looking at the crystal structure of one type of G protein (Gs-alpha) bound to its target, an enzyme found in heart tissue, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas scientists also uncovered a possible target for cardiac drugs.
The American Medical Association (AMA) passed a resolution today introduced by the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS) and other concerned organizations aimed at ensuring insurance coverage of procedures associated with childhood deformities, disfigurements and congenital defects.
A new "DNA" biochip developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could revolutionize the way the medical profession performs tests on blood.
The decline in political party loyalty and the influence of newspapers versus television are influencing political elections, making the results more volatile than in the past.
Treatment using conventional antipsychotics show high rates of recidivism which, in turn, is costly for the system. However, new research from the University of Maryland shows that patients treated with the novel antipsychotic risperidone experienced a lower readmission rate than patients who received conventional antipsychotic treatment.
Air-pollution-related hydrocarbon emissions from vegetation are much higher than expected over the African savanna (flat tropical grasslands), while those coming from the rain forests are somewhat lower than prior estimates, according to scientists. The National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded research team is mapping natural and human-caused trace gas emissions across the African continent in a project is called EXPRESSO, the Experiment for Regional Sources and Sinks of Oxidants.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation announced that it has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market MigranalÆ (dihydroergotamine mesylate, USP) Nasal Spray for the acute treatment of migraine headache with or without aura.
New ultra-high speed computer software can simulate the effects of solar surface eruptions on the Earth's magnetosphere. 3-D models of eruptions are created far faster than real time---meaning the simulation might some day predict the effects of space weather phenomena on Earth in ample time to prepare for them.
Cornell university abuse experts have developed programs for the Army and Marines to enhance family stability, promote personal growth and responsibility and prevent family violence.
Young lambs may not need inoculation against enterotoxemia type D -- otherwise known as "overeating disease" -- until past the age of 6 weeks, according to Cornell University animal scientists.
In the new book "Understanding Abusive Families," Cornell University professors of human development James Garbarino and John Eckenrode explore why families become abusive and what it takes to help such families care for their children or, failing that, to protect children from harm.
Nine teams of three to six students each from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson Colleghe will showcase their product innovations at the College's Third Annual Product Design Fair. Three of last year's designs resulted in a marketable product for the sponsoring company. One of these three designs has also received a patent.
Kentucky's economy is expected to grow by more than 2 percent in 1998, reflecting "steady, moderate to strong will exceed the national economy's performance, a University of Kentucky economist forecasts.
West Virginia University and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have signed a unique agreement that will allow the school to offer the world's first degree programs in forensic identification.
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