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Prizes Bigger than the Nobel
Shawna Williams | Oct 5, 2017 | 3 min read
The Nobel Prize may garner the most attention, but there are other biomedical awards at least as lucrative.
Guts and Glory
Anna Azvolinsky | Apr 1, 2016 | 9 min read
An open mind and collaborative spirit have taken Hans Clevers on a journey from medicine to developmental biology, gastroenterology, cancer, and stem cells.
Q&A: Science spouses
Amber Dance | Apr 21, 2010 | 3 min read
Rosemary and Peter Grant on this week's Kyoto Prize Symposium, spending three decades together on the Galapagos, and possible names for the potential new species they discovered
C. elegans cell lineage, circa 1981
Elie Dolgin | Jun 1, 2008 | 1 min read
Credit: courtesy of John Sulston" /> Credit: courtesy of John Sulston Starting in 1980, John Sulston spent 18 months hunched over a microscope watching Caenorhabditis elegans embryos divide. Together with Bob Horvitz at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, he had already mapped the fate of every cell in the adult worm from the moment the egg hatched, but the embryonic cell line
How to Track Cell Lineages As They Develop
Kelly Rae Chi | Dec 1, 2016 | 7 min read
Sequencing and gene-editing advances make tracing a cells journey throughout development easier than ever.
NAS Honors Sagan And 14 Other Science Achievers
Neeraja Sankaran | Apr 17, 1994 | 8 min read
Three of the 13 awards this year are going to astronomers, including the academy's highest honor--the Public Welfare Medal--which is being given to Carl E. Sagan, 59, David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Every year, NAS presents this medal (the only award without an accompanying cash prize) to an individual who has made extraordinary use of science for the public good. Perhaps
NAS Honors Sagan And 14 Other Science Achievers
Neeraja Sankaran | Apr 17, 1994 | 8 min read
Three of the 13 awards this year are going to astronomers, including the academy's highest honor--the Public Welfare Medal--which is being given to Carl E. Sagan, 59, David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Every year, NAS presents this medal (the only award without an accompanying cash prize) to an individual who has made extraordinary use of science for the public good. Perhaps
Ribozymes: Hearkening Back to an RNA World
Jeffrey Perkel | Sep 15, 2002 | 9 min read
Illustration: Ned Shaw LIKE MOLECULAR TOY-MAKERS, ribozyme researchers create tools with evolutionary, diagnostic, and therapeutic applications. Nearly 20 years ago, Tom Cech and Sidney Altman discovered that some naturally occurring RNAs could perform enzymatic reactions, earning these researchers the 1989 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Scientists have now identified several examples of RNA enzymes, or ribozymes. Most make or break the phosphodiester bonds in nucleic acid backbones, but some
Centrifuge Improvements Put New Spin On A Laboratory Workhorse
Howard Goldner | Mar 5, 1995 | 7 min read
A true laboratory workhorse, the centrifuge has been an essential part of most biological labs for many years. Using centrifugal force obtained by spinning experimental samples at high revolutions per minute (rpm), the device functions as a preparative method to separate various sample components, within minutes, for further treatment. Ultracentrifugation is an even more powerful technique that is used in analytical studies involving the characterization of and interactions between biological m
Researchers Receiving MacArthur Fellowships Demonstrate 'Capacity To Make A Difference'
Bruce Anderson | Sep 14, 1997 | 6 min read
PRIZE WITH A PRICE: Science historian Peter Galison has taken some ribbing from his family since being named a MacArthur fellow. One could almost pity Peter Galison. A historian of science at Harvard University, Galison is one of seven members of the scientific community among the 23 recipients of this year's John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. The coveted five-year awards provide unrestricted support plus health insurance to talented individuals, with no reports or proj

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