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...Crick, always restless, decided there were greater opportunities in embryology, the study of how a single fertilized egg develops into an adult organism. A decade later, he made another major change by moving to the Salk Institution in La Jolla, Calif., to explore the brain. He began by looking at dreams and soon shocked Freudians by concluding that dreams were simply the brain's nightly housecleaning to make room for new memories...
...Nobel committee decided Monday to award this year's prize in Physiology or Medicine to three researchers who have uncovered its genetic basis. H. Robert Horvitz, 55, an American who works at the Massachusetts Institute of technology will share the award with two Britons: Sydney Brenner, 75, of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, and Sir John Sulston, 60, of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, in Cambridge, England...
...TIME senior writer Jeffrey Kluger just sold a book proposal to Putnam. Says Kluger, "The proposal is about Jonas Salk and the polio vaccine. It won't be a sweeping, door-stop sized bio. Instead it will be more of a medical sleuthing story, focusing on the critical years between 1952 and 1955. The book is pegged to come out in the spring of 2004, which is the 50th anniversary of the great field trial that proved the vaccine successful. Jonas Salk's family is cooperating in the research, opening his private files, lab books, and letters, which should make...
Brenner served as director of the Molecular Sciences Institute—a private research center in Berkeley, Calif. which he founded—until his retirement last year. He continues to serve as a research professor at the Salk Institute for biological studies...
...page tome, some two decades in the making, that claims to redefine the foundations of virtually every branch of science, from physics and mathematics to biology and even psychology. "Stephen is not a modest man," says Terrence Sejnowski, director of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., who is an avid Wolfram watcher. "But his ideas could turn out to be extremely important...