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Ex-Berkeley Lab Director Resigns As Energy Secretary, Defends Loans
Energy Secretary Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize-winning former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, announced his resignation Friday, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
Stanford, UCLA Professors Awarded Nobel Prize For Economics
Two American scholars were awarded the Nobel economics prize on Monday for studies on the match-making that takes place when doctors are coupled up with hospitals, students with schools and human organs with transplant recipients.
Stanford Professor Shares Nobel Chemistry Prize For Research On Human Cells
Two American researchers, one a professor at Stanford University, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for studies of protein receptors that let body cells sense and respond to outside signals like danger or the flavor of food.
UCSF Scientist Shares Nobel Prize For Medicine For Stem Cell Research
Two scientists from different generations won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for the groundbreaking discovery that cells in the body can be reprogrammed to become completely different kinds, potentially opening the door to growing customized tissues for treatments.
HealthWatch: Bay Area Scientists Work To Reset Biological Clock
Scientists in Menlo Park have developed a new test to measure what may be the best biomarker of overall health status — raising hopes that our biological clocks can be slowed, or even reset.
Lawrence Berkeley Lab Scientist Wins Nobel Prize In Physics
Saul Perlmutter, head of the Supernova Cosmology Project at the University of California, Berkeley was awakened early Tuesday to learn he was one of three scientists awarded the Nobel Prize in physics.
Nobel Laureate Collapses At NASA Ames Research Center, Dies
Dr. Baruch S. Blumberg, who shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discovery of the hepatitis B virus, has died. He was 85.
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