A Sampling of Clips for
January 9th, 2007
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Israeli Prof. Shares Prestigious Prize for Explaining Proteins
Jerusalem Post, Jan. 8 -- A brilliant female Israeli structural biologist and an outstanding UCSD physicist will share the $100,000 Wolf Prize in Chemistry for their discoveries leading to a unified picture of basic biological mechanisms. In addition, an Italian artist will receive the $100,000 Wolf Prize in Painting and Sculpture. More
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The God of Small Things
Atlantic Monthly, January/February 2007 -- Back when UCSD alumnus Craig Venter was the bad boy of science, racing the U.S. government to sequence the human genome—and using some of his own DNA to do it—he kept his face clean-shaven, and often posed for photographs in suits or medical coats. More
4 Institutes Band Together on Stem Cells
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 9 -- The San Diego Stem Cell Consortium was formed last year, when UCSD and the Burnham, Salk and Scripps research institutes entered a pact to share grant money they might receive from California's stem cell institute. Ultimately, the consortium hopes to obtain a large facilities grant from the state to build a joint research facility on UCSD land along North Torrey Pines Road, near the Salk Institute. More
New Assay Test Exposes Tiny Pockets of Drug-Resistant HIV in the Blood
Scientific American, Jan. 8 -- A new type of test may markedly improve the ability to detect potentially drug-resistant HIV infections using a patient's blood sample. The technique works by scanning individual virus molecules for genetic mutations that are known to confer immunity to existing treatments. (Quotes HIV/AIDS researcher Douglas Richman of UCSD, who was not involved in the research) More
Good Art Comes in Small Packages
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 9 -- The first three rounds of Sushi Performance and Visual Art's 4X4 series have attracted near-capacity audiences to the Bluefoot on the second Tuesday of each of the past three months. Series curator Liam Clancy, a professor of Theatre and Dance at UCSD, moved to San Diego in 2005 after living in New York and Los Angeles and spent his first year here developing his artistic home. (Written by Grace Leslie, a San Diego writer and a UCSD graduate student) More
Aquaculture Report Urges Growth, Better Regulation
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 9 -- Aquaculture, the production of aquatic plants and animals under controlled conditions, is looking like the next gold rush in the food industry. But as the growth of U.S. fish farming shifts from freshwater ponds to the ocean, the potential for environmental disaster increases. “If you do it right, it's good,” said Paul Dayton, a professor at the UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “But the world is full of horror stories.” More