Maynard Olson receives $500,000 Gruber Genetics Prize
July 9, 2007, New York, New York The human genome would have been an impossible jigsaw puzzle without the work of Maynard Olson. ... He created a way of breaking genomes into manageable pieces, applied it to the yeast genome, and made the human genome project a possibility. Now he is working to apply genome science to real biological problemsstarting with the bacterium that kills many people wi...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....