Posts Tagged ‘Nobel Prize Winner’

Gore, others urge CEOs to back climate change deal (San Francisco Chronicle)

Sunday, May 24th, 2009
Climate-change heavyweights U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and Nobel prize winner Al Gore urged more than 500 business leaders on Sunday to lend their corporate muscle to reaching a global deal on reducing greenhouse gases. The CEOs of PepsiCo, Nestle, BP and other...

On Switch That Turns Stem Cells Into Muscle (Medical News Today)

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
In a genetic engineering breakthrough that could help everyone from bed-ridden patients to elite athletes, a team of American researchers - including 2007 Nobel Prize winner Mario R. Capecchi - have created a switch that allows mutations or light signals to be turned on in muscle stem cells to monitor muscle regeneration in a living mammal.