Bill Catterall honored with Wachter Research Prize (from UW Medicine) Bill Catterall, chair of the Department of Pharmacology, has been awarded the 2010 Wachter Research Prize by the University of Innsbruck, Austria, for exceptional scientific achievements in all fields of medicine. Catterall was re[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Biology’
January 23rd, 2011 - 9:24 am § in Uncategorized
Example: How the Free Market Can Distort Research
This article from Dr. Humphreys hit home. I have seen the same story before. The problem is not the company’s fault, the problem is a huge crack in how the free market works together with the scientific method to hurt the interests of science and of patients. Let me offer another example. Ever[...]
January 6th, 2011 - 3:21 pm § in Misc.
Will Biotech Mean Jobs in Seattle?
Biotech is a major part of the hoped-for-future of Seattle. Is the promise real? Will there be jobs? No one knows more about this then Luke Timmerman, the Seattle based national biotech reporter for Xconomy, a news agency devoted to high technology. Like will talk at 9 AM, Tuesday the 18th o[...]
America Competes Act Passes!
House Clears America COMPETES Reauthorization By Juliana Gruenwald December 21, 2010 | 6:44 PM The House cleared legislation Tuesday that would reauthorize the America COMPETES Act, which authorizes basic research, programs aimed at boosting science, technology, engineering and math education and ot[...]
January 1st, 2011 - 6:55 pm § in America
Patents on Genes
On May 12, 2009, the ACLU and the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) filed a lawsuit charging that patent on BRCA1 gene was invalid. Mary Claire King, now a Professor at the University of Washington, discovered BRCA1 and showed that is it is associated with breast and ovarian cancer. The suit cha[...]
January 1st, 2011 - 11:29 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
Burke Goes to Antartica for Xmas
Burke Museum curator of vertebrate paleontology Christian Sidor and two UW graduate students, Adam Huttonlocker and Brandon Peecock depart for a two-month trip to search for fossils in Antarctica. More stories from their trip.[...]
December 31st, 2010 - 8:11 pm § in Uncategorized
Humor … Really, Humor About the Rightwing.
Conservatives have a larger area of the brain associated with fear. The “exciting” correlation was found by scientists at University College London who scanned the brains of two members of parliament and a number of students. Read more at the Telegraph[...]
December 29th, 2010 - 1:48 am § in Religion
Genesis: Origins of Us
from PZ Myers Pharyngula Origin stories are common to all religions. The real story, seen through science, is even more wonderful! For those who do not remember high school biology, “life” is defined by the creation of cells .. bags of stuff that are able to replicate themselves. Th[...]
Death of A Pioneer: Britton Chance
After Newton, science has had eras marked by new discoveries. One such era might be called the era of the pathway. Once we cell biologists learned about the parts of the cell, biochemistry and biophysics became dominant .. an era led by a few pioneers who determined the functions of these parts [...]