May 22, 2013

Congratulations new NAS members Eddy De Robertis and Nick Spitzer

News from the National Academy of Sciences Date: April 30, 2013 Source: National Academy of Science FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 14 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing [...]

NXR Frog Sale

  The National Xenopus Resource Center is currently offering the following frog lines at half price:   Xenopus laevis Elastase-GFP Xenopus laevis Venus YFP   If you are interested in these lines, please email Xenopus@mbl.edu

Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine 2012 Awarded to Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka

For Immediate Release: October 9, 2012 Source: http://www.nobelprize.org/ The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 jointly to John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent Summary The Nobel Prize recognizes two scientists who discovered [...]