Scientist Andrew Maynard to testify on nanotechnology research needs
WASHINGTON "Nanotechnology risk research isn't rocket science," according to Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies chief scientist Andrew Maynard. Dr. Maynard's remarks in his Thursday, January 4th testimony before the federal government's first public meeting will focus exclusively on research needs and priorities for the environmental, health, and safety risks of engineered nanoscale materials....American Andrew Z. Fire shares Nobel Prize for discovering RNAi
Washington, D.C., October 2, 2006--Andrew Z. Fire, a scientist who discovered RNAi, or RNA interference while at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Embryology, along with Craig C. Mello of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, was awarded a Nobel Prize for the discovery today. ... The Fire-Mello discovery that double-stranded RNA can quash the activity of specific genes is an im...Tufts University's Andrew Camilli named Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
BOSTON, MA -- Embargoed until March 21, 2005, 5:00 p.m. ET -- Andrew Camilli, PhD, associate professor of molecular biology and microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine, was named one of 43 new Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigators today. The HHMI appointment awards Dr. Camilli with unrestricted funds to further his research work at Tufts University. He is the third HHMI...