The Origin, Evolution, and Future of Life on Earth
...Participants: Christian de Duve, 1974 Nobel Prize winner in medicine; author of Singularities (Publication date: September 2005 Colin McGinn, Philosopher (consciousness, intentionality, imagination), author, The Character of Mind; Problems in Philosophy: The Limits of Inquiry Mark Norell, Curator & Chair...Washington University receives $29.5 million to sequence corn genome
...t of modern genetics. Barbara McClintock, the 1983 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, discovered transposons, segments of genetic code that can jump from place to place in DNA, while studying maize in the 1940s and 1950s. "Transposons are essential to allowing a genome to evolve and develo...Gene variants predict heart muscle damage after cardiac surgery
...annual Vivien Thomas Young Investigator award. The winner will be announced at the meeting. Earlier this year, members of the same research team found that patients with a different set of polymorphisms were at a two to four times more likely to suffer kidney damage as a result of major heart surgery. In an...EURYI expands horizons for young scientific researchers in Europe
...t their ideas into action starting right now. Each winner will receive up to 1,250,000 over a five-year period in an award that is comparable in scope to the Nobel Prize. Organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and the association of the heads of public national research and research funding orga...2005 EURYI Awards highlight the future excellence of science in Europe
...posals, presented by Professor Werner Arbor, joint winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Each winner will receive up to 1,250,000 over a five-year period in an award that is comparable in scope to the ...Winners of 2005 AAAS Science Journalism Awards
...levision producer and former AAAS journalism prize winner who served as a judge. "Overbye writes about it wi... that makes learning fun." Grossman, a AAAS prize winner for the second time, said he chose Madagascar as a venue for his reporting after previous trips to A...Insect pheromone research wins Eppendorf/Science prize
...ormed within the last three years. The grand prize winner receives $25,000 from Eppendorf, and the winner's ...ence Online ( http://www.scienceonline.org ). The winner as well as the finalists will be recognized at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in...Nine minority physiology grad students each get $18,000 Porter Fellowship from APS
...awarded the one-year fellowship that provides each winner with an $18,000 stipend. *Three of this year's winners are receiving a second-year fellowship. To date, the APS has provided more than 100 fellowships to minority pre- and postdoctoral students. 2005-2006 APS Porter Physiology Fellows: Andrew J. ...USC neuroscientist to receive Prince of Asturias prize
...or influence andselectivity. Damasio was the sole winner in the scientific category.Past recipients include...coverers Robert Gallo andLuc Montangier. The last winner of an undivided prize was primatologistJane Goodall in 2003. Winners in the other award categories ...Researchers address the meaning of the genomic revolution
..., Queensland Institute for Mental Health Research, winner of the Premier's Award for Medical Research; Professor Mark Ragan, Research Group Leader, Comparative and Computational Genomics, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, UQ....'EMBO Gold' goes to leading diabetes and cancer researcher
... at the University of Dundee, Scotland is the 2005 winner of the EMBO Gold Medal. Alessi receives the award in recognition of his landmark work in cell signalling. The young scientist's pioneering research on enzymes called "kinases" and their role in inherited disease has provided exciting new insights int...Ossur congratulates Hugh Herr on Popular Mechanics 2005 Breakthrough Leadership Award
...recognizes 10 individuals and teams, including one winner of its highest recognition, the Breakthrough Leadership Award given to Dr. Herr this year -- for helping to improve lives and expand possibilities in the realms of science, technology and exploration. Attending today's presentation at the Museum ...EMBO honours leading Italian and Russian science communicators
...ty Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan, Italy is the winner of the 2005 EMBO Award for Communication in the Life Sciences. Boncinelli receives the award in recognition of his outstanding efforts in science communication. Since 1994, the professor of biology and genetics, a founding figure in developmental bio...Thomas Eisner to receive 2005 Rockefeller University Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science
...thor of nine books, including For Love of Insects, winner of the Best Science Book in the 2004 Independent Publisher Book Awards. And he is a well-known nature photographer; his film Secret Weapons won the Grand Award at the New York Film Festival and was named Best Science Film by the British Association f...Study shows how respiratory disorder slows some racehorses
...se-induced pulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH) trailed the winner by an average of 14 feet (4.36 meters). EIPH cause...e more severe the disorder, the further behind the winner a horse was likely to place. "We could actually quantify the distance based on the severity of the d...Johnson & Johnson names selection committee for Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research
...e, 1978 co-winner of the Albert Lasker Award, 2003 winner of the National Medal of Science. Sir Richard Sykes (United Kingdom), former chief executive officer of GlaxoWellcome, now rector of Imperial College, London, fellow of the Royal Society, honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a fello...Finalists in young scholars competition announced
...oring the leadership and vision of Charles Townes, winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in physics. These young scientists, all under 40 years of age, will present their innovative research at the symposium to be held October 6-8, 2005 on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. The major themes for ...HSPH's Walter Willett wins Bristol-Myers Squibb/Mead Johnson Freedom to Discover Award
...r of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, was named winner of the twenty-fifth annual Bristol-Myers Squibb/Mead Johnson Freedom to Discover Award for Distinguished Achievement in Nutrition Research. He was recognized for his pioneering work in the field of nutritional epidemiology, including the development ...Breakthrough: Structure of membrane protein described by Hebrew University, German researchers
...University, and Prof. Hartmut Michel, Nobel prize winner for chemistry in 1988, of the Max Planck for biophysics in Frankfurt, Germany. Their work, described in a recent edition of the journal Nature, was supported by a grant from the German-Israel Binational Science Foundation; Proteins such as NhaA are...Top young African-American scholars in science and engineering to meet in Monterey, Calif.
...r of AAAS Education and Human Resources and a 2003 winner of the National Academy of Sciences' Public Welfare Medal. Among other speakers scheduled for the conference is Barry Gold, who leads the Packard Foundation's efforts to foster the emerging field of sustainability science. The Foundation is based in ...