Rice engineer wins prestigious Annunzio Award
...to isolate and culture embryonic stem cells; Nobel laureate Dr. James Cobey, an active leader in the International Campaign to Ban Landmines; influential architect Michael Graves, who designed several buildings on the Rice campus; and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, a pioneer in the study of AIDS and HIV. "Considering ...Phillip A. Sharp to present 2004 Ullyot Public Affairs Lecture at Chemical Heritage Foundation
...erseverance, and diplomacy. He is not only a Nobel laureate and cofounder of a leading biotech company, but also a major architect of MIT's central importance in the life sciences. We eagerly anticipate learning from his insights when he comes to CHF in November." Sharp's lecture, "Chemistry, RNA Interference...Researchers find protein that makes long-term memory possible
... in the cells indicative of memory. In 1998 Nobel laureate Eric Kandel reported that tissue plasminogen activator was also involved in the formation of long-term memory. Tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, is best known for its use in dissolving clots in stroke and heart attack patients. Dr. Lu and his c...Muon opportunists: Detecting the unseen with natural probes
...ootsteps of the late Luis Alvarez, a Nobel physics laureate from the University of California, Berkeley. In the late 1960s, Alvarez placed muon detectors in a tunnel beneath the Great Pyramid of Chefren in Egypt in search of hidden burial chambers. None were discovered. Another speaker at the meeting, Kaneta...Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner receives 2005 UCSD/Merck Life Science Achievement Award
...go by Macagno, was the late Francis Crick, a Nobel laureate also from the Salk Institute who co-discovered the structure of DNA. Crick received the first UCSD/Merck Life Sciences Achievement Award in 2003, the year before his death last July. The award to Brenner will culminate the all-day scientific symposi...Stem-cell, cancer test and black hole breakthroughs to be revealed at UK physics conference
...ion the key to carbon-neutral energy sources Nobel laureate Steven Chu will make a plea for scientists to look at nature's blueprint to help develop carbon-neutral energy sources. Oil and gas production is likely to peak within a generation and heavily polluting coal could be strung out for a few centuries. B...UK physics conference to reveal breakthrough isolating stem cells from blood
.... "Enzymes could solve energy crisis", says Nobel laureate (embargoed) Nobel laureate Steven Chu will reveal how enzymes could solve the world's energy crisis. In a plea for the developm...'Termite guts can save the planet,' says Nobel laureate
...cs conference Physics 2005 in Warwick today, Nobel laureate Steven Chu urged scientists to turn their attention to finding an environmentally friendly form of fuel. In an impassioned plea to some of the world's brightest minds, he explained how he's leading by example, and encouraged others to join the effort...HHMI awards first Gilliam Graduate Fellowships
...research in the lab of HHMI investigator and Nobel laureate Eric Kandel at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she studied kinesin, a molecular motor protein. Van Prooyen has completed her first year as a graduate student in biology at The Johns Hopkins University. Profiles and downl...Talalay receives Pauling Prize for Health Research
...ing, the institute's founder, was a two-time Nobel laureate and OSU alumnus....Oxytocin/vasopressin research sees new clinical applications, key role in social behavior
...iversity of Colorado Health Science Center. Nobel laureate Agre heads three keynoters Sladek said the three major speakers capture the diversity of presentations: Peter Agre of Johns Hopkins: Agre's discovery of aquaporins, the cell membranes' water channels, led to his Nobel Prize. Agre will discuss aquapo...Stephen P Goff awarded inaugural Retrovirology Prize
...eevec. Goff was a PhD student at Stanford in Nobel laureate Paul Berg's lab. He did his post-doc with David Baltimore, another Nobel prize winner. He is active in many professional organizations and serves on numerous editorial boards including the Open Access journal BMC Microbiology. In choosing the prize ...France's highest scientific honor awarded this year to Salk Institute scientist Ronald M. Evans
...ie Curie, Gustave Eiffel and Henri Poincare. Nobel laureate and theoretical physicist David Gross of University of California at Santa Barbara was awarded the prize last year. A faculty member at Salk since 1978, Dr. Evans is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and holds the Salk Institute's March ...Study shows humans have ability to track odors, much like bloodhounds
...arry out the search." Forty years ago, Nobel Prize laureate Georg von Bksy claimed that humans had the ability to localize odors, based on experiments in 1964 with human subjects. He suggested this was done the same way we locate sounds: by contrasting either the intensity of the odor or the time of arrival. ...Jefferson scientists uncover new clues to how crucial molecular gatekeepers work
... recent and controversial theory proposed by Nobel laureate Roderick MacKinnon of Rockefeller University holds that a kind of molecular paddle comprised of the S4 segment and part of the S3 segment moves through the cell membrane, carrying S4's positive charges with it across the lipid. As in the conventional...UT Southwestern physician-researcher wins international award for lipid research
...ysician scientists," said Dr. Michael Brown, Nobel laureate and director of the Erik Jonsson Center for Resear...oral research fellow in Dr. Brown and fellow Nobel laureate Dr. Joseph Goldstein's laboratory at UT Southwestern. "An outstanding clinician, she launched her sc...Rutgers researcher uncovers new gene for fear factor
... apply new therapies." In collaboration with Nobel laureate Eric Kandel at Columbia University and Vadim Bolshakov at Harvard Medical School, Shumyatsky had previously identified another gene that controlled learned but not innate fear. The new research being reported by Shumyatski, Kandel et al. is the first......s related to the research conducted by Nobel Prize laureate Erwin Neher, and it has advanced progress in this ...psychologist Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel Prize laureate in Economics. Thomas Mussweiler obtained his doctorate from the University of Trier and his habilit...Australian geneticist receives top award
... Professor Graves was selected as the Asia-Pacific laureate of the L'oral-UNESCO for Women in Science 2006 awards by a panel of high-profile life scientists led by Gunter Blobel, who received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1999. As part of the award, which was presented in Paris last week, Professor Graves r...'Accelerated evolution' converts RNA enzyme to DNA enzyme in vitro
...it evolved over time." As Francis Crick, the Nobel laureate who, along with James Watson uncovered the double helix structure of DNA, articulated in 1970, all known organisms operate according to the central dogma of molecular biology-that the transfer of sequential genetic information proceeds from nucleic a...