—Author David Stipp writing on thescientist.com about science’s quest for the fountain of youth.
—Ronald Coase, who won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Economics.
—Neurobiologist Luo Minmin on returning to China to study the genetics of attention-deficit disorder after receiving his PhD and doing a postdoc in the U.S. (Quoted in the Washington Post.)
—S. Ming Sung, chief Asia-Pacific representative for the Clean Air Task Force, a U.S.-based nonprofit entity, and a former Shell Oil executive, on clean energy scientists in China. (Quoted in the Washington Post.)
—Harold Varmus, newly appointed National Cancer Institute Director and founder of PLoS journals, quoted in the New York Academy of Science Update (Spring 2010).
—Edward Rothstein in The New York Times, reviewing the new Darwin Center (Cocoon) in London’s Natural History Museum (April 8, 2010).
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