Smog Spreading To South Pacific
...gesmog alert" in Los Angeles, according to a Nobel laureate in atmosphericchemistry. The report identifying tropospheric ozone as a "major atmosphericproblem for the 21st century" came today in Dallas at the national meeting ofthe American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. Un......unological conditions,say two authors, one a Nobel laureate and the other the "father oftransplantation," in this week's New England Journal of Medicine. Thomas E. Starzl, M.D., Ph.D., professor of surgery and director,University of Pittsburgh Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute; and Rolf M.Zink......nt of Microbiology and Immunology at UCSFand Nobel laureate J. Michael Bishop, MD, chancellor of UCSF, researchers havedetermined that telomerase can extend the life span of human fibroblast cellswithout lengthening telomeres. The telomerase enzyme, they discovered, caps theends of telomeres and, in so doing...Protein Misfolding, Not Mutant Gene, Key To Lethal Sleep Disorder
...lfamilial insomnia." The researchers, led by Nobel laureate Stanley <AHREF="http://keck.ucsf.edu/neuroscience/prusiner.htm">Prusiner , M.D., aprofessor of neurology, biochemistry and biophysics at U.C. San Francisco, alsodemonstrate that the sporadic disorder can be transmitted to transgenic animalsth...New marking system gives scientists first real view of immune memory cells
...gy at EmoryUniversity School of Medicine and nobel laureate David Baltimore, Ph.D.,president of the California Institute of Technology, developed the method ofirreversibly tagging T lymphocytes with a cell surface protein in geneticallyengineered mice. The protein, which Jacob calls a "reporter gene," is fou...Jefferson scientists show drug is effective against a Hepatitis C Virus model in the laboratory
... Dwek, D. Phil., FRSC, Oxford University,and Nobel laureate Baruch Blumberg, M.D., Ph.D., Fox Chase Cancer Center....Fall Meeting: updated press conferences and special events
... a controversial 50 year old hypothesis of Nobel laureate Hans Alfvn of Sweden, concerning accelerated particles. This will be the first ever press conference on science results from the FAST satellite. Panel: Dr. Charles W. Carlson, Principal Investigator, FAST Satellite, Space Sciences Laboratory, Unive...Chemical receptor key to fetal development
...d, a few years ago MIT biology professor and Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa developed mutant mice lacking a key subunit of the NMDA receptor. "The idea was to see how knocking out the NMDA receptor affects the hippocampus on a cellular level, then how it affects learning and memory in the entire animal," Dr. ...Putting a price tag on paradise
...y. Her Science co-authors from Stanford are Nobel laureate Kenneth J. Arrow, professor emeritus of economics; Paul R. Ehrlich, professor of biological sciences; and David Starrett, former chair of the Economics Department. The authors also are affiliated with the Beijer Institute of the Royal Swedish Academ...Fugu fish sequencing project potential boon to gene hunters
...ed form for comparative genomic analysis. Nobel laureate James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double helix structure, has endorsed this project. "The Fugu fish sequence, in combination with the draft mouse genome, to be available in early 2001, will greatly add to the comparative sequence studies that are...Presence of only two genes makes the difference between an ordinary and headless embryo
...ls participation and in Tubingen, Germany by Nobel laureate Christiane Nsslein-Volhard, who directs the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. Chordino is a BMP antagonist that was first discovered in the frog Xenopus. Bozozok is a protein called a transcription factor that plays a role in the regula...Pauling Centenary to recognize scientist, humanitarian
... ever to emerge from its halls. The two-time Nobel laureate was born on Feb. 28, 1901, and later graduated in ...aturing a keynote address by Ahmed Zewail, a Nobel laureate in chemistry. The Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Lecture in World Peace will be May 14, featuring Bett......a's world-class neuroscience team, including Nobel laureate Eric Kandel. New imaging technologies that have come into use the past decade are revolutionizing neuroscience by allowing research of the healthy human brain. Using the grant, Columbia will exploit and improve those technologies, including positron ...Genomic leaders receive 2001 Biotechnology Heritage Award
...lds great promise to become, in the words of Nobel laureate and Caltech president David Baltimore, an engine of pharmaceutical discovery. About Francis S. Collins Collins is the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute and chief of Genetic and Molecular Biology at the National Institu...New book distills essence of gene regulation (and more)
The preeminent French scientist and 1965 Nobel laureate Jacques Monod famously remarked, "What's true for E. coli is true for an elephant." Monod was expressing his view that common mechanisms underlie gene regulation in diverse biological settings ranging from the simple to the complex. In a new book, Ge...The next generation of scientists recognized at Johns Hopkins
... claimed the life of the award's namesake, a Nobel laureate and Hopkins professor. Awards also are made for clinical research. Postdoctoral fellow Lisa Korn, M.D., discovered that screening for osteoporosis in people over age 65 may be beneficial, while cardiology fellow Charles Henrikson, M.D., M.P.H., reve...Carbon nanotubes found to fluoresce
...ity chemists led by fullerene discoverer and Nobel laureate Richard Smalley describes the first observations of fluorescence in carbon nanotubes. Fluorescence occurs when a substance absorbs one wavelength of light and emits a different wavelength in response. The Rice experiments, conducted by Smalley's grou...New insight into how eyes become wired to the brain discovered by Salk, UT Southwestern scientists
... on a hypothesis, first suggested in 1963 by Nobel laureate Dr. Roger Sperry, that unidentified molecules guide the mapping of optic axons into the brain. Axons can be likened to electrical wires that grow from nerve cells and carry signals from the nerve cells, much like a cord carries electricity to a lamp....