A Sampling of Clips for
May 03, 2005
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Brainy Idea
Fails to Spark
Australian, May 2-One of the surprise
hits of the 2001 Federation Festival was the Alfred Deakin Innovation
Lectures: Melburnians thronged to hear the world's best and
brightest thinkers on the issues of the day and of the future.
(Refers to research by V.S. Ramachandran, director
of the Center for Brain and Cognition at UCSD.)
More
These Days
KPBS, May 2-Composer Roger
Reynolds, UCSD professor of music,
talks about an experimental project that gauged if audiences
heard in his music what he intended them to hear. More
Robert Dynes:
Pumping Arnie
UK Guardian, May 3-University of California
President Robert Dynes had to sell the value of research to
the Terminator without getting terminated. He tells Donald MacLeod
how he did it. More
San Francisco
Picked as
Top Choice to Land Stem Cell Headquarters
San Francisco Chronicle, May 3-An
influential panel of the state's newly created stem cell agency
endorsed San Francisco as its top pick to host the agency overseeing
California's $3 billion public investment in stem cell research.
The panel, a subcommittee of the 29-member board that oversees
the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, ranked San
Diego and Sacramento in a virtual tie for second place Monday
as permanent headquarters. San Diego County's bid includes a
decade's worth of free rent in La Jolla, which is also home
to UCSD. More
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Diego Union-Tribune, May 3
Critical
Lock and Key Mechanism Found
for the Assembly of Tumor Blood Vessels
Medical News Today, May 3-A critical
lock and key mechanism that allows the final step in the completion
of new blood vessel formation has been identified by a UCSD
School of Medicine team in research that promises to lead to
a new way to halt tumor growth by cutting off the tumor blood
supply. More
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Innovations
Report, May 3
