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Learning How Not to Be Afraid
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Roger Tsien Wins 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
http://www.hhmi.org/ref/news/nobel20081008.html/RSSRoger Tsien, Osamu Shimomura, and Martin Chalfie honored for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, a ubiquitous research tool.…
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New Blood Test for Down Syndrome
http://www.hhmi.org/ref/news/quake20081006.html/RSSHHMI researchers devise prenatal blood test that accurately detects Down syndrome and two other serious chromosomal defects.…
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No Boys Allowed?
http://uncommonmisconception.typepad.com/home/2008/10/no-boy...way as a result of all this... but not right now. That's how you eat an elephant: one bite at a time; and you don't start with the ass. __________________________________ Update: Apparently, my understanding of X-linked disorders is off. Here's a better explanation. Still highly worrisome, but with a potential for unaffected babies.
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No Boys Allowed?
http://uncommonmisconception.typepad.com/home/2008/10/no-boy...way as a result of all this... but not right now. That's how you eat an elephant: one bite at a time; and you don't start with the ass. __________________________________ Update: Apparently, my understanding of X-linked disorders is off. Here's a better explanation. Still highly worrisome, but with a potential for unaffected babies.
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The week on Nature Network: Friday 10 October
http://blogs.nature.com/nautilus/2008/10/the_week_on_nature_...involved, and talk to their friends and families, would it eventually serve to increase scientific literacy?" Frank Gannon's recent EMBO Reports editorial on bullying in science is discussed in some detail. Heather Etchevers refers to a HHMI booklet Making the Right Moves: a practical guide to scientific management for postdocs and new faculty, available free either as a download or by mail, which she and others have found helpful. The Italian government is intending to interrupt the temporary employment in the public administration which will affect all the “precari” in the public
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organism: making art with living systems
http://music.columbia.edu/organismNobel Prize in Chemistry
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Staying Calm In Stressful Situations
http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/10/09/staying-calm-in-stre...insights and led us to a number of potential targets for new drugs,” Kandel explained, noting there are already agents in development that influence the dopamine and neuropeptide pathways. The research is reported in the journal Neuron. Source: Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
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Don Spencer's Artifacts
http://rtfax.blogspot.comthe books and started browsing them again. As I did so, I recognized a key word - tinker - that had just surfaced in some apparently unrelated reading I had done recently of the relatively new science of Evo-Devo, evolutionary developmental biology (see Sean B. Carroll's Fruitfly Study Shows How Evolution Wings It ). From there, as I continued with my online search, I discovered that Taleb's forthcoming book is tentatively titled Tinkering After the fact, it all seems so obvious. Evolution apparently works through tinkering with a simple chemistry set of DNA. Free market economi
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Loudoun's HHMI at Janeila Farm
http://www.novahomeguy.com/2008/10/loudouns-hhmi-at-janeila-...Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute (HHMI) at Janeila Farm celebrates it's second anniversary in Ashburn VA this month. HHMI mission statement: HHMI's Janelia Farm Research Campus is a world-class biomedical research center where outstanding scientists from diverse
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2007 National Medals of Science and Technology
http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net/2008/10/09/2007-nation...pioneering contributions in nuclear physics that have advanced research into many applications, including energy generation from fusion, dating of artifacts, and nuclear medicine, her passion for teaching and her outstanding service to her profession. Robert J. Leftkowitz for his discovery of the seven transmembrane receptors, deemed the largest, most versatile and most therapeutically accessible receptor signaling system, and for describing the general mechanism of their regulation influencing all fields of medical
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Centpeus
http://centpeus.blogspot.comel gen de la GFP, van haver de manipular-lo, unir-lo a promotors i després de força temps van aconseguir que funcionés primer en bacteris i després en altres cèl·lules. I finalment, el tercer premiat amb el Nobel, en Roger Tsien va reblar el clau. Va començar a modificar la molècula de GFP per tal d’aconseguir que emetés llum en diferents longituds d’ona. Per això ara disposem de molècules que emeten llum de colors i tonalitats diferents. De manera que podem marc
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Brain Windows
http://brainwindows.wordpress.coma short presentation on the history of calcium imaging for a journal club here at Janelia. It is incomplete. It lacks notes. It focuses much attention on early genetically-encoded indicators. However, calcium imaging is so intertwined with the work of Roger Tsien, my Ph.D. thesis advisor, and since he just won the Nobel Prize I thought it might be of some interest to the audience of Brain Windows. It does provide a little bit of background for some of the more recent developments chronicled on this site.
