Bradford Stanerson Wins ACS's Charles Lathrop Parsons Award

Arf6 wins the MVP award

The biosynthetic mevalonate pathway (MVP) produces the building blocks for a wide range of biological molecules, from cholesterol to the long-chain prenyl groups that mediate the membrane association of Ras family GTPases (1). Mutations in the tumor suppressor p53 can up-regulate the MVP, a phenomenon that enhances the invasiveness of certain breast cancer cell lines by an unknown mechanism (2)...

Charles Parsons Mathematical Thought and Its Objects

This is the second, revised, version of a section-by-section discussion of Charles Parsons’s eagerly awaited Mathematical Thought and Its Objects (CUP, 2008: pp. xx + 378)1 – though not every section gets the same level of attention. For convenience, the divisions here correspond to the chapter/section divisions of the book. Parsons himself says that his book has been a very long time in the wr...

RCT wins CMAJ Bruce Squires Award.

Allison Bishop Wins NSF CAREER Award Allison

The flip side of the data revolution is that massive data has rendered many standard algorithms computationally expensive, necessitating a wholesale rethinking of even the most basic computational methods. To take one example: Nearest neighbors search, the classic method since the 70s for finding similarity among objects, is straightforward for small data sets: compare every object to every oth...

Biochemist James Spudich wins Lasker Award

Stanford biochemist James Spudich, PhD, has been flying small planes as a hobby since 1975. At his Pacific Ocean vacation home there’s a private runway within walking distance from his cottage. But what’s put him in the pilot seat with respect to his professional career is his consistent ability to develop evermore-precise ways of measuring molecular movements. Spudich, the Douglass M. and Nola...