Profile of Bruce Beutler

Profile of Bruce A. Beutler.

Late one night in October 2011, Bruce Beutler checked his e-mail and saw a tantalizing subject line: it simply said, “Nobel Prize.” Beutler’s first thought was that it was a general announcement about that year’s Nobel Prizes, but as he read further he realized he had been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. “Usually people speak of the phone call they received, but in my ca...

Profile of Bruce Levin.

For population biologist Bruce Levin, opening the incubator to see how yesterday’s experiment worked is his ideal way to start the day. That anticipation has kept the Emory University professor of biology excited about his research on the population and evolutionary biology of bacteria for more than 40 years, and motivated a shift in interest from multicellular organisms to bacteria. Anything t...

Profile of Bruce Western.

On a summer afternoon in the late 1990s in New York City’s Tompkins Square Park, sociologist Bruce Western and his colleague Katherine Beckett engaged in a conversation that would change the course of their research. At the time, Western studied the social programs of European welfare states. Against the backdrop of a park that had seen a surge in drug dealing and homeless encampment in the 198...

Bruce Lahn profile. Brain man makes waves with claims of recent human evolution.

Bruce Lyon

communities. Many communities and tribal governments have established research and ethics review boards to evaluate proposed projects in their communities, stemming from a growing awareness and sophistication of issues surrounding genetic and biomedical research, including individual versus community (or cultural) risk, adequacy of individual versus community consent issues, confidentiality, re...