Nobel Prize in medicine awarded for cell death research
The Associated Press reports that H Robert Horvitz Sydney Brenner and John E Sulston won the Nobel Prize in medicine for work on cell death and organ development. Their discoveries in the worm C elegans revealed a self destruct program in cells, informing cancer and neurodegenerative disease research and potential new treatments.
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H. Robert Horvitz
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sydney Brenner
Salk Institute For Biological Studies
San Diego
Molecular Sciences Institute
Berkeley
Calif
John E. Sulston
Wellcome Trust
Sanger Institute
Hermann Steller
Rockefeller University
New East
Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute
Stockholm
Brenner
Aerial firefighting review spurred by fatal crashes
Forest Service forms an expert panel led by Jim Hail to study the agency’s aerial firefighting program, including maintenance and costs, after two deadly crashes. The June 17 Walker, California C-130A disaster and a later PB4Y crash killed all aboard, both operated by Hawkins & Powers Aviation Inc. of Greybull, Wyoming. Meetings begin in Atlanta with more to follow across the West.
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Colorado
Forest Service
Jim Hail
National Transportation Safety Board
Dale Bosworth
Atlanta
Walker
Calif
Hawkins & Powers Aviaton Inc
Greybull
Wyo
Astronomers locate huge frozen body beyond Pluto
Astronomers reveal a 800 mile wide icy object in the Kuiper Belt, named Quaoar, about one tenth Earth’s diameter and orbiting the sun every 288 years. It is not considered a planet, potentially reshaping views on Pluto’s planetary status.
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Los Angeles
Pluto
California
Earth
Michael Brown
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
Brown
Chadwick Trujillo
Palomar Observatory
San Diego
Hubble Space Telescope
Birmingham
Ala
Ameri
Can Astronomical Society
Division of Planetary Sciences
Quaoar
Trujillo
Neptune
Kuiper Belt
David Jewitt
University of Hawa
Jewitt
Jane Luu
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