Mitchell D. Eggers, a bioengineer who headed the bioelectronics division of The Woodlands, Texas-based Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC), is the first president and CEO of a new biotechnology company in the Houston area called Genometrix Inc. The new firm opened its doors on August 1. Temporarily housed at HARC, a nonprofit research organization that conducts biomedical studies, Genometrix will be targeting its efforts toward

Symposia: Monday, September 19, 8:45 a.m.-noon: NICHD Distinguished Alumni Symposium: Contributions of Basic Science to Human Biomedical Research (Bldg. 10, Masur Auditorium) Tuesday, September 20, 8:30 a.m.-noon: HIV Pathogenesis and Therapy (Bldg. 10, Masur Auditorium) Tuesday, 8:30 a.m.-noon: Apoptosis and the Cell Cycle (Bldg. 10, Lipsett Amphitheater) Wednesday, September 21, 8:30 a.m.-noon: Genetic Predisposition to Diseas

Editor's Note: This is the second part of a two-part series on the field of structural biology. Part 1, presented in the Aug. 22, 1994, issue of The Scientist (page 14), discussed the evolution of this booming discipline. This article focuses on structural biology's key areas of basic and applied research and looks ahead to its future. Following are some of the professional organizations whose memberships include structural biolo

Mitchell D. Eggers, a bioengineer who headed the bioelectronics division of The Woodlands, Texas-based Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC), is the first president and CEO of a new biotechnology company in the Houston area called Genometrix Inc. The new firm opened its doors on August 1. Temporarily housed at HARC, a nonprofit research organization that conducts biomedical studies, Genometrix will be targeting its efforts toward

Editor's Note: This is the second part of a two-part series on the field of structural biology. Part 1, presented in the Aug. 22, 1994, issue of The Scientist (page 14), discussed the evolution of this booming discipline. This article focuses on structural biology's key areas of basic and applied research and looks ahead to its future. Following are some of the professional organizations whose memberships include structural biolo

Symposia: Monday, September 19, 8:45 a.m.-noon: NICHD Distinguished Alumni Symposium: Contributions of Basic Science to Human Biomedical Research (Bldg. 10, Masur Auditorium) Tuesday, September 20, 8:30 a.m.-noon: HIV Pathogenesis and Therapy (Bldg. 10, Masur Auditorium) Tuesday, 8:30 a.m.-noon: Apoptosis and the Cell Cycle (Bldg. 10, Lipsett Amphitheater) Wednesday, September 21, 8:30 a.m.-noon: Genetic Predisposition to Diseas

Coming Of Age Structural biology--the study of the three-dimensional shapes of biological macromolecules--has always been a facet of biological research, from the detection of cells in the earliest days of microscopy in the late 17th century to the first X-ray crystallographic images of proteins in the 1950s and the development of DNA technologies that made proteins more accessible for study through the 1970s and 1980s. BUILDING

Chemist And Mathematician Are Named Winners Of Two 1994 Kyoto Prizes Paul C. Lauterbur, a chemist and director of the Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Urbana-Champaign, and André Weil, a French mathematician who is currently an emeritus professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., have been named winners of the 1994 Kyoto Prizes in the advanced tec

Chaos Theory Finding New Applications In Life Sciences Author: NEERAJA SANKARAN, pp.3 Date: August 22,1994 Researchers from a broadening array of life science disciplines say they are finding applications of chaos theory in their work. These scientists point out that it was recognition of the mathematical theory's relevance to their field that prompted psychologists four years ago to form the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology,

Coming Of Age Structural biology--the study of the three-dimensional shapes of biological macromolecules--has always been a facet of biological research, from the detection of cells in the earliest days of microscopy in the late 17th century to the first X-ray crystallographic images of proteins in the 1950s and the development of DNA technologies that made proteins more accessible for study through the 1970s and 1980s. BUILDING

Chemist And Mathematician Are Named Winners Of Two 1994 Kyoto Prizes Paul C. Lauterbur, a chemist and director of the Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Urbana-Champaign, and André Weil, a French mathematician who is currently an emeritus professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., have been named winners of the 1994 Kyoto Prizes in the advanced tec

Chaos Theory Finding New Applications In Life Sciences Author: NEERAJA SANKARAN, pp.3 Date: August 22,1994 Researchers from a broadening array of life science disciplines say they are finding applications of chaos theory in their work. These scientists point out that it was recognition of the mathematical theory's relevance to their field that prompted psychologists four years ago to form the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology,