A Sampling of Clips for
November 10, 2004
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Stem Cell Gold Rush
Los Angeles Daily News, Nov. 9-A 21st-century
gold rush is on in California after the voters approved $3 billion
for human embryonic stem cell research. (Quote by Edward
Holmes M.D., medical school dean at UC San
Diego.)
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20950~2524277,00.html#
Similar
articles appeared in:
Oakland
Tribune, Nov. 10
Florida
Ledger, Nov. 10
Seattle
Post, Nov. 10
San
Mateo County Times, Nov. 10
San
Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 10
Speaking Tonal Languages
Promotes Perfect Pitch
Scientific American, Nov. 9-A new
study concludes that young musicians who speak Mandarin Chinese
can learn to identify isolated musical notes much better than
English speakers can. (Refers to research by Diana Deutsch,
a researcher at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=000AF8AE-D1DD-118F-91DD83414B7F0000
Chips with
Everything Could Soon be the Doctor's Vision
Financial Times, Nov. 10-Few tools are as important as the gene
chip for elucidating the complex relationships between disease
and the three billion letters of genetic code that comprise
the assembling and maintenance instructions for human beings.
(Quote by Daniel Masys, professor of medicine
at the UC San Diego School of Medicine.)
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/enews/articles/2004/11_10_chips.asp
Governor
Hopes to Turn Cachet into Cash for State
San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 10-If,
after a year of use, "the governator" is starting
to tire as a nickname for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the throngs
of Japanese who will try to catch a glimpse of him this week
in Tokyo are ready to offer a replacement. (Quote by Dan
Hallin, a professor of communications at UC
San Diego.)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/11/10/BAGIB9MTHJ35.DTL
San Diego
Supercomputer Center First Academic Institution to Install IBM
Blue Gene Computer
Physorg.com, Nov. 9-The San
Diego Supercomputer Center announced today that it
will be the first academic institution in the world to install
the new IBM eServer Blue Gene Solution computing system.
http://www.physorg.com/news1909.html
Breakthrough
in Coding Theory and Practice
Physorg.com, Nov. 9-The Board of Governors
of the IEEE Information Theory Society has selected an article
by professor Alexander Vardy from the University
of California, San Diego, and Ralf Koetter from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as the top publication
in information theory during the past two years.
http://www.physorg.com/news1906.html
Three Studies
Back Attacks on Cholesterol
Times-Picayune, Nov. 10-Three studies
released in New Orleans on Tuesday reported on promising ways
to reduce cholesterol, with one in particular highlighting a
drug's effectiveness in treating African-Americans. (Quote by
Beatrice Golomb M.D., a researcher at the University
of California, San Diego.)
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/enews/articles/2004/11_10_studies.asp
Reference Points
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 4-Review
of "loudIMAGE," an exhibit by Brooklyn-based artist
Luis Gispert that is on view at UCSD's University
Art Gallery.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041104/news_lz1w4gispert.html
Questions
Answered
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 10-Q
& A column by Sherry Seethaler, a UCSD
science writer and educator who answers science questions submitted
by San Diego Union-Tribune readers.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041110/news_1c10sciqa.html
Pfizer Buys
La Jolla Center for $372M
North County Times, Nov. 10-Pfizer
Inc. has purchased its La Jolla research center for $372 million,
further strengthening its roots in San Diego. Pfizer had been
leasing the center from United Kingdom-based Slough Estates,
PLC. It contains about 1 million square feet of laboratory and
office space on a 33-acre site near UC San Diego, the hub of
San Diego's biomedical community.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/11/10/business/news
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