Nobel Committee Tags Ubiquitin for Distinction

Nobel Committee Tags Ubiquitin for Distinction

It must be very difficult to serve on the committee to select Nobel Prize winners—to have to select one or two scientific advances amidst many outstanding discoveries, to have to choose the two or three key investigators (who may not be the most visible or most cited ones), and to have to sift through many nominations that extol the achievements of some candidates (but overlook those of others)...

Ubiquitin at Fox Chase (Nobel lecture).

A Nobel for Smell

Nobel citation makes clear, Buck and Axel not only and Molecular Pharmacology solved the mystery of the olfactory receptors but, in a University of California, San Francisco remarkable series of subsequent experiments, outlined San Francisco, California 94143 the basic organizational principles of the vertebrate ol2 Howard Hughes Medical Institute factory system. More generally, the discovery o...

Segmentation Assisted Object Distinction for Direct Volume Rendering

Ray Casting is a direct volume rendering technique for visualizing 3D arrays of sampled data. It has vital applications in medical and biological imaging. Nevertheless, it is inherently open to cluttered classification results. It suffers from overlapping transfer function values and lacks a sufficiently powerful voxel parsing mechanism for object distinction. In this work, we are proposing an ...

Nobel Prize for Cellular Logistics!

Earlier this month (October 7, 2013) “the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet decided to award the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells” (www. nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2013/press. html and Fig. 1)...