Artificial Gels Could Speed DNA Sequencing
...bricated Artificial Gels," today (March 25) at the centennial meeting of the American Physical Society in the Georgia World Congress Center. The global scientific community has set itself the goal of sequencing all of the DNA in the human genome. But to date only about 10 percent of the total has been mapped....Coffee Without Addiction, Possible New Treatment For Osteoporosis, Wrinkle-Free Cotton, And More
...atcher, M.D., will speak at a luncheon tohonor the centennial of the birth of black chemist Percy Julian, who discoveredthe first treatment for glaucoma. Satcher will discuss policies "Towards aBalanced Community Health System: Opportunities and Challenges," at a luncheonon Monday, March 22, at 11:30 a.m....... Biomedical Institute in observation of Carilion's centennial and"as part of our long-term commitment to the region," said company president Thomas L.Robertson. The institute will be located in Roanoke. Construction will start next yearon a 50,000 square foot headquarters that will include a business incubator;...Rockefeller University Centennial Symposium to explore biology of drug abuse and addiction
...ent, Arnold J. Levine, Ph.D. As it anticipates its centennial anniversary in 2001, Rockefeller the nations first biomedical research centercontinues to lead the field in both scientific inquiry and the development of tomorrows scientists. The Biology of Drug Abuse and Addiction: More Tangled Than Traffic Frida...Ira Rubinoff honored by the Association for Tropical Biology
...cian. The Republic of Panama, due to celebrate its centennial as a nation in 2003, has played a key role in the development of both his career and personal life. In the 1960's, with Ernst Mayr as graduate advisor, Rubinoff demonstrated morphological differences between Pacific and Caribbean populations of fish...Stanford symposium on future of air and space travel
...d in the era of powered flight at Kitty Hawk. Most centennial celebrations held this year to commemorate that flight look back at aviation milestones dotting the timeline between then and now. But on July 31, the School of Engineering will look ahead to forecast how Stanford research is likely to change the way...UC Berkeley museum biologists to repeat 85-year-old Yosemite National Park wildlife survey
...or project of value to California. By the museum's centennial in 2008, scientists there hope to have resurveyed many of Grinnell's original transects around the state. "Yosemite is the crown jewel of the national park system and also of our project, because it was such a high profile piece of work by Grinnell ...Northern climate, ecosystems driven by cycles of changing sunlight
...that has enough details to evaluate the effects of centennial scale solar cycles on climate and ecosystems," Hu said. Sediment samples were tested for a variety of biological and chemical components related to environmental qualities, including their composition of biogenic silica, pollen and isotopes. The new...Leakey Foundation celebrates 100 years of human origins discovery
...ody of scholars dedicated to human prehistory. The centennial of Louis Leakey's birth coincides with an unusually productive period in human origins research. Important new fossil discoveries reported in Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa are changing the way we understand the course of human evolution. Ne...Marie Curie Nobel Centennial Celebration of Women in Science
...allenges for the 21st Century. The event marks the centennial of the first award of the Nobel Prize to Marie Curie. President Richard C. Levin will provide introductory remarks for "Frontiers in Chemistry, Astrophysics and Biology," at 2 p.m on Friday, November 7. Three of the most distinguished women scienti...Experimental Biology 2004 - Translating the Genome
...physiology. A historical lecture commemorates the centennial of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov's 1904 Nobel Prize. Among the APS's 14 distinguished lecturers are Peter Agre, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes, and Paul Greengard, 2000 Nobel winner for discov...Field Museum maps 'social assets' of Chicago's industrialized Lake Calumet region
...this site its "Best Web Site of 2003 Award" at its centennial meeting in Philadelphia. For more information about that award, visit http://www.placesonline.org/about/awards.asp .An executive summary of the study will be available March 11, and the full report will be available this spring....