Illinois News Bureau: Research http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/imageList/19 These are the top research articles at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Personal information in e-mail marketing can backfire, study indicates http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0701email.html Jan Dennis Business http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/19/14425 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:00:00 CDT Illinois News Bureau: Research Businesses risk chasing away prospective customers when they send chummy e-mails that bandy around people's names, hobbies and other personal information to pitch sales, according to a new study of the popular marketing tool. Researchers are first to simulate the binding of molecules to a protein http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0630atp.html Diana Yates Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/19/14402 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:00:00 CDT Illinois News Bureau: Research You may not know what it is, but you burn more than your body weight of it every day. Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a tiny molecule that packs a powerful punch, is the primary energy source for most of your cellular functions. Now researchers at the University of Illinois have identified a key step in the cellular recycling of ATP that allows your body to produce enough of it to survive. See ATP in action. Study: News media bias can net mistakes at the ballot box http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0625media.html General http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/19/14274 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:15:00 CDT Illinois News Bureau: Research The media slant political news to the left or right to increase ratings and profits, spinning up an information vacuum that can lead to mistakes at the ballot box, a new study by three University of Illinois economists says. Silicon photonic crystals key to optical cloaking, researchers say http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0625cloaking.html Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/19/14281 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:00:00 CDT Illinois News Bureau: Research Now you see it, soon you might not, researchers at the University of Illinois say. In computer simulations, the researchers have demonstrated an approximate cloaking effect created by concentric rings of silicon photonic crystals. The mathematical proof brings scientists a step closer to a practical solution for optical cloaking. Language expert's blog gaining popularity as 'go-to site' http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0624language.html General http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/19/14229 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:15:00 CDT Illinois News Bureau: Research It may not have the circulation of the Huffington Post - yet - but University of Illinois English and linguistics professor Dennis Baron's "The Web of Language" is the best-read blog published using software created by the university's Web Services. Fear of Germany's destruction drove Nazism's appeal, scholar says http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0617nazis.html General http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/19/14101 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:30:00 CDT Illinois News Bureau: Research Seventy-five years after the Nazis rose to power, historians still struggle to explain how the Nazis could take such effective hold of Germany and bring it to such murderous extremes in war and in the Holocaust. Team finds key mechanism of DDT resistance in malarial mosquitoes http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0616ddt.html Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/19/14085 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:00:00 CDT Illinois News Bureau: Research University of Illinois researchers have identified a key detoxifying protein in Anopheles mosquitoes that metabolizes DDT, a synthetic insecticide used since World War II to control the mosquitoes that spread malaria. Team discovers new inhibitors of estrogen-dependent breast cancer cells http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0616estrogen.html Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/19/14082 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:00:00 CDT Illinois News Bureau: Research Researchers have discovered a new family of agents that inhibit the growth of estrogen-dependent breast cancer cells. The finding, described today at a meeting of the Endocrine Society, has opened an avenue of research into new drugs to combat estrogen-dependent breast cancers. Attack on corporate crime has thrown justice out of whack, legal expert says http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0616corporate.html General http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/19/14071 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:00:00 CDT Illinois News Bureau: Research A legal assault on corporate fraud has turned justice upside down, putting company executives at too much risk while leaving shareholders out in the cold, according to a University of Illinois law professor. U. of I. expert to testify about Supreme Court's impact on consumer debt http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0610debt.html General http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/19/13991 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:30:00 CDT Illinois News Bureau: Research U.S. Supreme Court rulings are digging into Americans' pocketbooks, contributing to staggering mortgage and consumer debt that now averages more than $53,000 for every man, woman and child in the nation, according to a University of Illinois legal expert.