Dr. William Blackstock Amer. Society of Clinical Oncology New drug improves liver cancer survival on: Yahoonews Researchers say a new drug that improves survival for liver cancer patients could become standard treatment; drug companies will seek FDA approval for Nexavar this summer.
David Broomhead University of Manchester Reaction and Diffusion on Fractal Sets on: Systems biologists are interested in modelling chemical reactions in the intracellular environment, and to date much of what is done is based on the use of mass action kinetics to construct models of elementary reactions. Mass action kinetic models are based on a number assumptions which are not obviously valid in the intracellular environment. The cytoplasm is far from an ideal, isotropic wellmixed solution and often the concentrations of important chemical species are very small. Molecular crowding can have significant thermodynamic effects, but also must play an important dynamical role.
Interview on: The Vega Science Trust Fred Sanger is often considered the father of modern biology, and is one of the few people to have been awarded two Nobel prizes. Working in Cambridge he developed a new chromatographic method fo determining amino-acid end-groups. His new chromatographic results on the free amino groups of insulin were published in 1945 and the complete sequence of insulin in 1955.
Roger Kornberg Stanford University Interview on: Nobelprize.org Interview with 2006 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Roger Kornberg, 6 December 2006. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org.
Genetics of Self-Sacrifice- Science in Motion on: National Science Foundation A lively, informal look at animal research by scientists from UC-Santa Cruz. They studied a common lizard species and found that slight genetic variations (as revealed by different throat colors) make a big difference in behavior.
Robert Fischell Fischell Biomedical The quest for new cures on: TEDtalks Medical inventor Robert Fischell accepts the 2005 TEDPrize, and explains his quest to discover new cures for brain disorders. (Recorded February 2005 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 27:35)
Claudia Dreifus New York Times Talking Parrots: Part 3 on: New York Times In the final part of an interview with Joseph Forshaw, the Australian ornithologist admits to having eaten some of the specimens he gathered in his research.
Ronald Fox Georgia Institute of Technology Rectified Brownian Motion in Subcelluar Biology on: Fermilab Colloquium Lectures The mechanism of rectified Brownian motion will be described and applied to several sub-cellular processes. This mechanism is distinct from that of Brownian ratchets.
Computer History Museum Presents Steve Case in Conversation with Walt Mossberg on: It's been nearly 20 years since America Online was founded. The world was a very different place back then. Affordable PCs were just making their way into people's homes; cellular telephones weighed around two pounds each; CD technology was still in its infancy, and most people didn't even have cable television. Little did anyone know the Internet was about to transform nearly every aspect of their lives. It was Steve Case's belief that the online experience had unlimited potential to change the way society communicates, does business and learns about the world around us. During the past two decades, America Online, with Case at the helm, has been a key driver in pushing the Internet further into our everyday existence. Join us on January 12 as Case in conversation with Walt Mossberg, personal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, shares his shares his personal stories and discusses his perspectives on the Internet's amazing evolution.
Conputer says no: The social aspects of computer misuse on: sciencelive Computer says no: the social aspects of computer misuse A lecture by Stefan Fafinski, University of Leeds, UK Zombies, botnets, Trojans, worms, viruses, phishing, spam and justplain hacking. Alongside the benefits to society, the growth in computing power and availability has broughta new and expanding world of computer misuse which is often (wrongly) thought of as computer crime. Why do individuals commit computer misuse?
Claudia Dreifus New York Times Talking Parrots: Part 1 on: New York Times Australian parrot expert Joseph Forshaw discusses the human connection with parrots in the first of a three-part interview with science reporter Claudia Dreifus.
Bending it like Beckham on: sciencelive Matt Cunningham chats to James Soper about how David Beckham is really a good scientisit as well as a good footballer. James shows Matt how the principles of different scientisits can be applied to his free kick against Greece in the World Cup Qualifiers. Matt gets a chance to use knowledge from Galileo in order to get the football over the defence wall. With the use of hi-tech motion sensors Matt's own free kick is tracked and ploted by the computer.
Flying Over Opportunity's Work Site on: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Images of 'Victoria Crater' in Mars' Meridiani Planum region, taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, provided detailed, three-dimensional information that was used to create this animation of a hypothetical flyover. NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reached the edge of this crater in September 2006 and began exploring its rim clockwise.
Denise Grady New York Times CT Screening for Lung Cancer on: New York Times Dr. Claudia Henschke is leading a campaign to promote CT screening for people at high risk of lung cancer that she says can detect tumors at an early stage.
John 'Kappa' Cornforth Sussex University Interview on: The Vega Science Trust John 'Kappa' Cornforth was born in Australia, and has been profoundly deaf since his teens. He moved into the field of organic chemistry at Sydney University where he met his wife Rita. Together they moved to Oxford and had a profound influence on the work on the sterochemistry of enyzme-catalyzed reactions.
Noam Chomsky Massachusetts Institute of Technology on: MIT World If humans have a common, in-born capacity for language, and for such complex behaviors as morality, might the faculties be somehow linked? Noam Chomsky perceives a mere thread of a connection. In contrast, Elizabeth Spelke forcefully links universals in human nature to some of the developments in bringing about a greater balance in human rights.
Claudia Dreifus New York Times The Story of Skin - Part 2 on: New York Times Modern anthropologist Nina Jablonski says the work of cosmetologists may signify a leap forward in overcoming the ageist bias of our primate ancestors
Yaser Abu-Mostafa California Institute of Technology Yaser Abu-Mostafa: Learning from Very Noisy Data on: Caltech Dr. Yaser Abu-Mostafa, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Caltech, presented this lecture as part of the 9th Annual Industry Day, sponsored by the NSF Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering at Caltech.
Claudia Dreifus New York Times The Story of Skin - Part 1 on: New York Times Dr. Nina Jablonski says the human canvas offers something different and deeply personal for a world where fashions are mass produced.
Noam Chomsky Massachusetts Institute of Technology Language and the Mind Revisited - The Biolinguistic Turn on: UC Berkeley UC Berkeley presents the The Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lecture series, featuring linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky. Chomsky examines biolinguistics - the study of relations between physiology and speech.
Peter Donnelly University of Oxford Bugged Minds on: TEDtalks Oxford statistician Peter Donnelly explores the common mistakes humans make in interpreting statistics, and the devastating impact these errors can have on the outcome of criminal trials. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 22:06
