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April 17, 2010
Bioluminescence, or the production and emission of light by a living organism, tells scientists much about an organism’s communication system. Dr. Bonnie L. Bassler, professor of molecular ...
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April 17, 2010
Adults are armchair psychologists: we attribute to ourselves, and to our social partners, a host of mental states such as goals, intentions, desires and beliefs in order to explain our own and ...
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April 17, 2010
How do bacteria communicate across populations of millions? Quorum sensing, explains professor Bonnie L. Bassler of Princeton University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, allows bacteria ...
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April 17, 2010
Researcher and global health data visionary Dr. Hans Rosling will dramatically change the way you look at social and economic development and give you a new, better understanding of the so-called ...
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April 17, 2010
How do bacteria communicate across populations of millions? Quorum sensing, explains professor Bonnie L. Bassler of Princeton University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, allows bacteria ...
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April 17, 2010
Cone snail venom attacks the nervous system with a mixture of peptide toxins to cause convulsive shock, sedation and even paralysis. But for scientists like Dr. Baldomero M. Olivera of the ...
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March 09, 2010
The report "Rising Above the Gathering Storm" proposed the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy. The report suggested ARPA-E to be modeled after DARPA, which was created in ...
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March 09, 2010
Now that woman can receive an HPV vaccine, how should they be screened for cervical cancer and HPV? Dr. Nancy B. Kiviat, Professor and Chief of Anatomic Pathology/Cytopathology at Harborview ...
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March 09, 2010
Understand the role information systems can play in clinical and translational research, drawing upon the experience of the Biomedical Informatics Core of the CTSA-funded Institute of ...
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March 09, 2010
Explore dopamine’s effect upon learning from a genetic perspective with Dr. Richard Palmiter, University of Washington Department of Biochemistry professor and investigator at Howard Hughes ...
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March 09, 2010
Explore recent efforts to promote sustainable laboratory systems in resource-limited countries with Dr. Robert Martin, acting professor and director of laboratory systems in the Department of ...
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March 09, 2010
Dr. Wallace McMillan talks with host Erle Ellis about his work using satellite imaging to monitor carbon emissions globally. From the Series:UMBC In the Loop
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March 02, 2010
Theories differ over preferred management of low back conditions. Dr. Jerry Jarvik, Professor of Radiology at the University of Washington, discusses important improvements of the interpretation ...
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March 02, 2010
Peter Lee, director of the new Transformational Convergence Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), shares TCTO’s mission, research areas and approaches to ...
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March 02, 2010
Microsoft released its new “decision engine” in 2009. Take a look at the design decisions and technology directions behind Bing with Harry Shum, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Corporation. ...
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February 14, 2010
The University of Washington’s Dr. Tuofu Zhu reviews his collaborative research, as well as the building of critical research infrastructure, in areas of infectious and non-communicable diseases ...
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February 14, 2010
The University of Washington’s Dr. Colleen Delaney reviews current clinical practices of cord blood transplantation with a focus on outcomes and improvements in the last decade with this stem cell ...
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February 14, 2010
Several recent studies are shedding light on the genetics of schizophrenia. Among the implicated mutations are rare copy number variants, including large genomic deletions and duplications. The ...
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February 13, 2010
The new Web economy relies on the collection of personal data on an ever-increasing scale. Information about our tastes, purchases, searches, browsing history, friendships and relationships, ...
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February 13, 2010
We are entering a cyber world where millions of sensors continuously collect data. From the ocean bottom to deep space, scientists are monitoring environments at unprecedented scales. On a more ...
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