A Sampling of Clips for January 25^th, 2008

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Scientist Creates Life — Almost
TIME Magazine, Jan. 24 – UCSD alumnus Craig Venter was the leader of one of two teams that in 2000 sequenced the human genome. But Venter, 61, may have just done something that is at once more thrilling and promising and unsettling than all that. According to a just-released paper in the journal Science, he has gone beyond merely sequencing a genome and has designed and built one. In other words, he may have created life. More

CDC: Too Few Adults Get Their Vaccines
FOX News, Jan. 24 -- Vaccines aren't just for kids, but far too few grown-ups are rolling up their sleeves, disappointed federal health officials reported Wednesday. (Quotes Dr. Michael Oxman of UCSD) More

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Shark Tank Marriage Proposal
Good Morning America, Jan. 25 -- Cullen Hendrix, popped the question to Sarah Glaser, a graduate student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD, yesterday as she was finishing her last dive among 250 fish in the kelp tank at Birch Aquarium at UCSD. More (video)

Inventiveness Pays at Colleges
Los Angeles Times, January 2008 -- The nicotine patch. Google. The hepatitis B vaccine. Music synthesizer chips. Computerized war games. And a really tasty strawberry. Those are just a few of the thousands of inventions that were born on the campuses of California, making the state's academic centers among the nation's most productive and, through patents and licensing, well rewarded. (Mentions UCSD) More

UCSD Project is Lauded for Startup Help
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 25 -- The William J. von Liebig Center at UCSD is a model in how to promote the commercialization of discoveries made in the university's classrooms and laboratories, according to a national study released yesterday. More

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A Season at the Penguin Ranch in Antarctica
Live Science, Jan. 25 -- Paul Ponganis, a researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD, is an Antarctic veteran who has studied emperor penguins in the field for more than 20 years. He is both a medical doctor (anesthesiologist) and marine biologist and has combined these fields to pursue a lifelong fascination: oxygen regulation in mammals and birds. More

A Season at the Penguin Ranch in Antarctica
Live Science, Jan. 25 -- Paul Ponganis, a researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD, is an Antarctic veteran who has studied emperor penguins in the field for more than 20 years. He is both a medical doctor (anesthesiologist) and marine biologist and has combined these fields to pursue a lifelong fascination: oxygen regulation in mammals and birds. More

Not Guilty Plea in Campus Bomb Hoax
FOX6 News, Jan. 24 -- A UCSD employee accused of threatening to blow up buildings on campus if research animals weren't released pleaded not guilty Thursday to five federal charges. More

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