Behavioral Medicine

Professor Ralph Lewin, known as the father of green algae genetics, Lewin, 87, a scientist, poetry author and professor, spent nearly 48 years at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California-San Diego and was considered a  

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- 1:30 PM (Light lunch available at 12 noon.) Who: Arthur Caplan, Ph. D., Chair, Department of Medical Ethics and Director, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania Andrew Maynard, Ph. D., Chief Science Advisor, Project on Emerging  

BioSeek, Inc., a pioneer in the application of predictive human biology to drug discovery, announced today that it has exclusively licensed two novel anti-inflammatory peptides from Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The two novel peptides were identified as candidates for development by BioSeek as a...  

E. Derelle et. al., 'Genome analysis of the smallest free-living eukaryote Ostreococcus tauri unveils many unique features,' Proc Natl Acad Sci, 103:11647-52, 2006. (Cited in 74 papers) French, Belgian, and US scientists sequenced the genome of  

J. Chun et al., 'GPR92 as a new G(12/13)- and G(q)-coupled lysophosphatidic acid receptor that increases cAMP, LPA(5),' J Biol Chem, 281:23589-97, 2006. (Cited in 75 papers) Between 1996 and 2006, researchers identified four G protein-coupled receptors  

Two Stanford seniors—Max Kleiman-Weiner, who is majoring in biology with a concentration in neurobiology, and Douglas Stanford, who is majoring in physics—have been awarded Marshall Scholarships.  

Christine Crish said she'll never forget her first college course when during the lecture her teacher reached into a bucket and produced a human brain. "He proceeded to talk about how this brain was once a person," she said. "And...  

Modern life may demand it and job descriptions often list it as a requirement, but multi-tasking is way beyond the capacity of the human brain, and even too much for the next best laptop computer. They just do so many single things so fast, they appear to be doing several things simultaneously.