Workshop for new synchrotron light source at Brookhaven
...oderick MacKinnon, describing his 2003 Nobel Prize winning work in structural biology, and Paul Horn, Senior Vice-President for Research at IBM, on future scientific opportunities in nanoscience enabled by a synchrotron like NSLS-II. Attendees will include members of the scientific community, including parti...Converting research into commercial reality
... so that the whole of UK society can benefit. The winning team are ThruVision Ltd from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire led by Dr Jonathan James. ThruVision is developing an innovative terahertz imaging technology initially for security screening products. A working prototype has successful...Final of the 2003/04 Research Councils' Business Plan Competition
...ll present a trophy and a cheque for 25,000 to the winning team. The event begins at 14:30 on Tuesday 24 February 2004 with a brief presentation from each of the competition's five finalists. After comments from the judges, Lord Sainsbury will announce the winner at around 15:45. Members of the media...Ten Chinese reporters receive AAAS Fellowships
... nanotechnology advances; and more. Reports by the winning Fellowship recipients were disseminated by such di...uth Daily ; and Xinhua News, among others. "The 10 winning Fellowship recipients represent a strong balance of national and regional media outlets, as well as ...Six reporters reach the 'pinnacle of excellence'
...e publisher of its journal, Science. "Further, the winning entries then serve as teaching tools as they are disseminated each year to science writing programs at universities and colleges throughout the country." Since their inception nearly six decades ago, the awards have honored more than 300 individuals ...$9.4 million NSF grant backs UCSB-led effort in bio-image informatics
...hers' eyes looking at the images. According to the winning proposal, "Next Generation Bio-Molecular Imaging and Information Discovery," the project's mission is "to develop new information processing technologies appropriate for extracting detailed understanding of biological processes from images depicting ...Obesity, kidney genetics, erectile dysfunction among highlighted research at APS Meeting
...took the life of the velvet-voice, two-time Grammy winning singer, Barry White, at age 58. Edwin Bottinger, MD, associate professor of medicine and molecular genetics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and director of the Einstein Biotechnology Center reports on the state of knowledge for geneticall...Researchers involved in renal and cardiovascular function gather for fall conference
...took the life of the velvet-voice, two-time Grammy winning singer, Barry White, at age 58. Edwin Bottinger, MD, associate professor of medicine and molecular genetics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and director of the Einstein Biotechnology Center reports on the state of knowledge for geneticall...Three Pacific Northwest National Laboratory inventions win R&D 100 Awards
...nical significance, uniqueness and usefulness. The winning inventors will be recognized in October at R&D Magazine's 41st annual awards banquet held in Chicago, where the magazine is based....Scientists find gene that protects against potato blight
...Your odds of getting the one gene in would be like winning the lottery." Still, the Wisconsin group, plans to develop engineered varieties for the garden. The hope, they say, is to develop the technology that will gradually win consumer acceptance and, perhaps someday, go where no GMO has gone before. The le...ORNL wins four R&D 100 awards, pushing total to 116
...of us at ORNL are extremely proud of our staff for winning these awards," said ORNL Director Bill Madia. "The...t coveted in the world of scientific research, and winning it brings prestige to both the researcher and the laboratory." ORNL's total of 116 awards is second ...Call for entries: Science Journalism Awards
...nce journalists. The two-panel method ensures that winning entries contain scientific accuracy, originality, clarity of interpretation and value in fostering a better understanding of science by the public. The awards will be presented at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Seattle in February 2004. Reasonable travel...EMBO rewards communicative scientist 5 000 euros
...rojects or other special initiatives. There is one winning application annually. The prize of 5 000 euros and a silver medal will be awarded in Heidelberg on November 23rd, 2003 during the EMBL/EMBO joint Science & Society conference on Genetics, Determinism and Human Freedom. Applications must be accompanie...UC Riverside graduate student wins best poster award at international conference
...DNA array data analysis.' Other co-authors of the winning poster were James Borneman, assistant professor of...when I learned that my work had been chosen as the winning poster. After all, there were many works of high quality and excellence at the poster session by re...2003 ASM Communications Award goes to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporters
... Microbiology 2003 Public Communication Award. The winning entry, written by John Fauber and Mark Johnson, was a two-part series on the arrival of chronic wasting disease in Wisconsin that also explored the complex science of the abnormal proteins called prions and the diseases, such as chronic wasting disea...UC Riverside scientists contribute to study that unveils genome sequence of bread mold
...aid Borkovich. "For example, the 1958 Nobel Prize winning work of George Beadle and Edward Tatum, which linked together the disciplines of genetics and biochemistry, or genes and proteins, was performed using Neurospora ." The natural habitat of Neurospora was originally thought to be limited to tropic...Applied Biosystems announces $250,000 grant program for SNP genotyping studies
...pplied Biosystems products for SNP genotyping. The winning proposal for the Applied Biosystems SNP Genotyping...m . Deadline for submission is April 20, 2003. The winning grant recipient will be announced in mid-May 2003. "We hope this grant program will encourage innova...Tiny RNAs-'biological equivalent of dark matter'-wins prestigious AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize
...Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. Together, the winning articles "reveal the completely unexpected abundance of ultra-small RNA molecules, only 20 to 24 nucleotides long," explained Donald Kennedy Editor-in-Chief of Science. "What we've learned is that these abundant microRNAs are evolutionarily conserved...UT Southwestern postdoctoral researcher wins international Young Scientist Prize
... a list of accomplishments to his credit. Rutter's winning essay on proteins containing a "sensing" module th...tudy of the circadian rhythms. In fact, all of the winning entries this year really make a researcher, no matter the years of experience, sit back and think," ...Clock cues: Cellular sensing, metabolism research wins Amersham Biosciences and Science Prize
...tudy of the circadian rhythms. In fact, all of the winning entries this year really make a researcher, no matter the years of experience, sit back and think," said Andrew Carr, President, Amersham Biosciences. "This prize is dedicated to recognizing the up and coming researchers behind future of molecular me...