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2. Making the paper: Scott Loarie & Christopher Field.
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CLIMATE change , *HABITATS , *FORESTS & forestry - Abstract
The article discusses the capacity animals and plant to shift with the changing climates and habitats. Plants and animals tend to shift with the changes at a phenomenal speed, according to global ecologist Christopher Field of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California. While Carnegie postdoc Scott Loarie said that species who are used to the tropics tend to prefer continuous forests, than forest fragments.
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- 2009
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3. Making the paper: Ahmed Zewail.
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ELECTRON microscope techniques , *NANOSTRUCTURES , *OPTOELECTRONIC devices , *PHOTONS , *PHYSICS - Abstract
The article discusses the introduction of near-field imaging to electron microscopy to develop real-time movies of nanometre-sized structures by Ahmed Zewail and his colleagues at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. The dubbed photon-induced near-field electron microscopy (PINEM) technique has the ability to alter the way scientists examine the nanoworld. Zewail mentions how his team work hard to discover fields of electrons within the nanostructures.
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- 2009
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4. Making the paper: Taylor Perron.
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LANDSCAPES , *GEOLOGISTS - Abstract
The article reports on the move of geologist Taylor Perron and his colleagues Jim Kirchner and Bill Dietrich at University of California, Berkeley, to examine how erosional processes create uniform patterns of landscapes. They compare a computational model with precise measurements of various landscapes. Moreover, it reveals that having developed a computational model that accurately predicts the natural patterns in landscapes, geologists can learn how factors have shaped Earth's topography.
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- 2009
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5. Making the paper: Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte.
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STEM cell research , *EMBRYONIC stem cells , *FANCONI'S anemia , *APLASTIC anemia - Abstract
The article reports on the breakthrough in stem cell research in Japan in 2006 and the efforts of various scientists worldwide in testing the cells in 2009. According to the Japanese research, induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells were produced when mouse skin cells return to an embryonic cell through manipulation. It cites that scientist Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte and his colleagues in California, has successfully generated iPS cells from skin cells of a patient with Fanconi anaemia.
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- 2009
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6. Making the Paper: Phil Baran.
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TERPENES - Abstract
The article profiles Phil Baran, a researcher and author for the journal "Nature Chemical Biology." It states the Baran is also an organic chemist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. According to the article, since he was called up to work on the review of the terpenes, he agreed to do the task and developed his knowledge in terpene field. Further information on the researches of Baran related to chemical synthesis is presented.
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- 2009
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7. Making the paper: Charles Cobbs.
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Cobbs, Charles
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CANCER patients , *AIDS patients , *BRAIN tumors , *CANCER cells , *CEREBELLAR tumors , *MENINGIOMA - Abstract
The article elaborates on the study conducted by Charles Cobb, a neurosurgeon at the California Pacific Medical Center, in San Francisco, California. Aside from practicing his profession, he is also a virus hunter, Since 1998, he studied on whether viruses have an association with brain tumours. He and his co-authors discovered that the human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) needs a particular cellular receptor, normally involved in growth-factor signaling, to infect a type of cancer cell in the brain. He found out that this type of virus causes defects at birth and fatal diseases in immunocompromised people, especially patients with AIDS. People who are infected with the virus is associated with the occurrence of glioma, an extremely aggressive form of brain cancer that is difficult to treat.
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- 2008
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8. Making the paper: Erica Ollmann Saphire.
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VIRUS morphology , *EBOLA virus disease , *IMMUNOLOGISTS , *VIRAL proteins , *IMMUNE system - Abstract
The article discusses the success of Erica Ollmann Saphire, an immunologist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, and her team in winning the race on providing a picture of how the deadly Ebola virus evades the immune system and enter cells. The move was risky and the work was long and difficult. It took them over four years to express 130 versions of the Ebola virus glycoprotein, grow and test crystal diffractions. The team found out that the virus can lie in wait for years. Saphire and her colleagues managed to solve the structure of an infection-blocking antibody bound to a viral protein, revealing a possible defence against the virus.
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- 2008
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9. Making the paper: Douglas Hofmann.
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COLLEGE students , *METALLIC glasses , *INDUCTION coils , *DUCTILITY , *TEMPERATURE , *COLLEGE teachers , *UNIVERSITIES & colleges - Abstract
The article focuses on the effort of Douglas Hofmann to produce a new class of resistive bulk metallic glasses. In 2003, he studied the materials engineering program together with his college teacher William Johnson at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in California. He further knew the concept of ductility to the glasses. He decided to apply the induction coil, an instrument which conducts heat over a lower range of temperature. Based on the subsequent analysis, he learned that two phases are formed when the glass composites are heated in the temperature range above the melting point of glass and below the dendrite's temperature.
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- 2008
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10. Making the paper: Gilles Laurent.
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Laurent, Gilles
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LOCUSTS , *INSECT behavior , *SMELL , *EXPERIMENTAL design , *NEUROSCIENTISTS - Abstract
The article provides information on the research of neuroscientist Gilles Laurent of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, using locust as a model in experimenting the neural mechanisms of insects use to learn odors. He chose the locust as a model of his study in which he first began studying insect olfaction because it was a good way of tracing circuit function and neural computation in the brain. Meanwhile, the article also discusses the detailed experimental design and the results of the study.
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- 2007
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11. Making the paper: Lawrence Steinman.
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CRYSTALLINE lens , *MULTIPLE sclerosis , *CELL death , *DEATH (Biology) - Abstract
The article focuses on Lawrence Steinman, a neurologist from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California who studied the role of protein αB-crystallin (CRYAB), an eye lens protein in the neurological disease multiple sclerosis. The work of Steinman distinguished CRYAB as a central agent in controlling inflammation and programmed cell death in the brain. Steinman's team has also shown that CRYAB likewise tones down many inflammatory pathways and helps in preventing programmed cell death.
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- 2007
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12. Making the paper: Chris Kintner.
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Kintner, Chris
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CILIA & ciliary motion , *XENOPUS laevis , *MOLECULAR neurobiology - Abstract
The article discusses the study on the development of ciliated cells in the skin of the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis by Chris Kintner, a molecular neurobiologists, and his team in California. It is stated that the group observed that Xenopus embryos tended to float at the bottom of the culture media because of the cilia on the skin cells. The group realized that when cilia first form on cells in Xenopus skin, they tend to point towards the tail.
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- 2007
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13. Making the paper: Yan Zheng.
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PSORIASIS , *T cell receptors , *LYMPHOCYTES , *SKIN diseases , *PROGNOSIS - Abstract
The article analyzes the missing link between T lymphocytes and psoriasis. The observations of Immunologist Yan Zheng and his colleagues at the company Genentech in San Francisco, California are discussed in detail. An overview of the cause for the white cell infiltration into the skin and the role of IL-22 in causing the disease of psoriasis, through experimentation on mice, is presented. The article also presents the observations of Wenjun Ouyang on TH 17 and T22 to find the missing link.
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- 2007
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14. Making the paper: Jay Keasling.
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MALARIA treatment , *YEAST , *UNIVERSITIES & colleges - Abstract
The article describes how Jay Keasling, a synthetic chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, and his team have engineered yeast cells to produce an important precursor for a drug to treat malaria. Keasling collaborated with Amyris Biotechnologies and non-profit drug company Institute for OneWorld Health to try to complete the synthesis of artemisinin. The research was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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- 2006
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15. Making the paper.
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Cheng-Ming Chuong
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BIOLOGISTS , *SCIENTISTS , *ANIMAL specialists - Abstract
The article focuses on the career of Cheng-Ming Chuong, a developmental biologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Chuong has interest on how feathers are generated in adult birds. He decided to try to track down the location of stem cells in feathers. Chuong and his team discovered that in flight feathers, the ring of stem cells tilts towards the side where the quill arises. He plans to continue his characterization of feather stem cells.
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- 2005
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16. Espionage verdict prompts call for retraction of polymerase paper.
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Dalton, Rex
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FRAUD in science , *ACTIONS & defenses (Law) - Abstract
Reports that Agouron Pharmaceuticals, La Jolla, California, has been found guilty of stealing research. Work stolen from Huguette Pelletier when she worked at the University of California at San Diego; Pelletier's work published by Agouron in `Cell'; Decision of a state court jury against Agouron.
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- 1998
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17. Stem cells: The impatient advocate.
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Dolgin, Elie
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MEDICAL societies , *REGENERATIVE medicine , *RESEARCH grants , *EMBRYONIC stem cell research , *TREATMENT of diabetes - Abstract
The article discusses the contribution of Bob Klein as chairman of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). It mentions the legacy that he left after his resignation on December 17, 2010 including six new facilities, 700 scientific papers and 1.15 billion U.S. dollars in grants. It also notes his advocacy on the promotion of human embryonic stem-cell research in the U.S. to seek an effective treatment for diabetes.
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- 2010
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18. Profile: The field medic.
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Vance, Erik
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EMERGENCY physicians , *THROAT surgery , *LARVAL behavior , *PARASITE behavior , *TRAINING of medical students - Abstract
The article profiles Matthew Lewin, an emergency-care doctor with a specialty in widlerness medicine. In addition to operating as a medic in places such as Chile, Peru and Mongolia, he has released more than 40 papers on work that ranges from defensive behaviour of moth larvae and exotic parasites to how to open the throat of a person during improvised surgery. He has trained U.S. special-forces medics, national-park responders and medical students at the University of California in San Francisco, California, in methods to treat patients in the field.
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- 2010
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19. news in brief.
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SCIENCE , *SCIENCE publishing , *SCIENTIFIC literature , *TECHNOLOGICAL innovations , *SCIENTIFIC apparatus & instruments , *NUCLEAR fusion , *SCIENTIFIC community , *MEDICAL societies - Abstract
The article provides information on the recent developments across the world related to science and technology. Months of confusion ended last week when the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued licenses that permit the U.S. publishers to accept and print scholarly papers with authors from Cuba, Iran and Sudan. A convoy carrying US$4.6 million worth of laboratory equipment and $1 million worth of academic books is bound for higher-education institutions in Iraq. Impulse Devices, a company in Grass Valley, California is launching an experimental power reactor based on "bubble fusion," despite reservations within the scientific community over whether the effect exists. Zsuzsanna Jakab, secretary of state at Hungary's ministry of health, was last week nominated as the inaugural director of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
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- 2004
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20. Journal club.
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Albarede, Francis
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SCIENTIFIC discoveries , *SCIENTIFIC apparatus & instruments , *HUMAN ecology education , *SCIENTISTS , *TEMPERATURE measurements , *ISOTOPES , *SCIENTIFIC development - Abstract
The article reports on the discovery of the clumped isotope thermometry, a valuable tool for paleoenvironmental studies by a group of researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California. The new tool was discovered by measuring the abundance of molecules which contain oxygen-isotope and the uncommon carbon-isotope. According to published papers, the results of early test of this clumped thermometer on corals and fish earbones were promising which provides a new record of ocean temperature during Paleozoic era.
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- 2007
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21. Technology trap.
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ELECTRONIC security systems , *ELECTRONIC voting , *SCIENTISTS , *UNIVERSITIES & colleges , *TECHNICAL specifications - Abstract
The article focuses on the academic analysis which shows the weak foundation of electronic voting systems in California. The analysis was made possible by the scientists of Berkeley and Davis campuses of the University of California in Berkeley. The analysis indicates that the three systems purchased by the state from Sequoia Voting Systems Inc., Hart InterCivic Inc. and Diebold Inc. failed to meet the needed security requirements for the voters. Secretary of state Debra Bowen said that the result would allow voters to use paper ballots for the February 2008 elections and promised the public to reattest the machines once they comply with the basic requirements for the voting system. Meanwhile, reactions of other public officials on the analysis result are offered.
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- 2007
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22. Quantified: David Eisenberg's Lab.
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LABORATORIES , *UNIVERSITIES & colleges , *PROTEIN-protein interactions - Abstract
Focuses on David Eisenberg's laboratory at the University of California in Los Angeles. Scientific work involving the interaction of proteins; Papers written by Eisenberg from the laboratory.
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- 2005
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23. Fury at plan to split historic biology archive.
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Dalton, Rex
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AUCTIONS , *MOLECULAR biology - Abstract
Discusses the issues associated with the auction of an historic archive of molecular biology documents in San Diego, California. Reaction of the researchers to the separate sale of the papers; Value of the documents.
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- 2003
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24. Charges fly in $1bn hormone patent battle.
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Dalton, Rex
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SOMATOTROPIN , *PATENT infringement , *ACTIONS & defenses (Law) , *UNIVERSITIES & colleges - Abstract
Describes progress in the legal case in which the University of California, San Francisco, alleges that Genentech Inc. infringed on its patent for DNA for human growth hormone. Hormone leading to the development of the drug Protropin; Views of Genentech executives about the case; Details about key testimony; Problems with a paper published in `Nature' related to the case; Colleagues who have had to tesify against one another. INSET: Who's telling the truth about crucial plasmid?.
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- 1999
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