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Leaping Laureates

Martin Chalfie never envisioned celebrating his 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry by toting a giant paper mâché frog on his shoulders across the Stockholm University campus on a cold, dark December eve. But three days after he crossed the stage of the ...

From ANDREA GAWRYLEWSKI, The Scientist,  2 Oct 2009

Fixing fraud

In 2007, Steve Erikson, a plant researcher at a large public university in the south, had been working with a PhD student on a project using RNAi to silence endogenous genes and improve the nutritional quality of a particular food crop. Erikson ...

From ANDREA GAWRYLEWSKI, The Scientist,  18 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Food and Drug Administration,  David Wright,  Columbia University,  National Institutes of Health,  Facebook Inc.

Personalized meddling

In the frigid weeks of the US Congressional winter recess, the halls of government buildings around Capitol Hill are empty and quiet. But things are far from quiet for Frankie Trull, a biotechnology lobbyist. With the changing of the Congressional ...

From ANDREA GAWRYLEWSKI, The Scientist,  16 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Food and Drug Administration,  Jeffrey Taylor

A matter of chow

Kozul holding standard chow (left) and purified chow (right). Three hours after a particular poster session began at the 2007 Society for Toxicology meeting, the line to see Courtney Kozul's poster still wrapped around the room, and she had ...

From ANDREA GAWRYLEWSKI, The Scientist,  13 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Environmental Protection Agency

Fancy this

AFRMA Show Orange County Fair Best AOCP, Best Standard, Blue Splashed "KK2125-2" owned and bred by Karen Robbins. One year ago this month, Jennifer Hipsley brought seven of her best mice to the East Coast Mouse Association's first mouse show in ...

From ANDREA GAWRYLEWSKI, The Scientist,  6 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Harvard University,  Edsel Ford

Pfizer cuts 800 scientists

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From ANDREA GAWRYLEWSKI, The Scientist,  14 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Pfizer Inc.

How killer cells remember

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From ANDREA GAWRYLEWSKI, The Scientist,  12 Jan 2009

Darwinian time

n a windowless room, three researchers hunker over a waist-high lab table. Dressed in white coats and latex gloves, the investigators, all members of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, get down to the business at hand: skinning ...

From ANDREA GAWRYLEWSKI, The Scientist,  5 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Charles Darwin,  Michael Rose,  Princeton University

Blind man aces obstacle course

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From ANDREA GAWRYLEWSKI, The Scientist,  22 Dec 2008

Better late than never

One hundred and fifty years ago, British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace wrote an essay describing some of his ideas on the origin of new species and survival of the fittest species in an environment. Knowing that Charles Darwin had been kicking ...

From ANDREA GAWRYLEWSKI, The Scientist,  19 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Alfred Russel Wallace,  Princeton University,  Charles Darwin

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