by Joe Cox
May 13, 2009 in Science
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sunday, May 10, 2009
In the past few months, Kipp Mullis of Winder has developed skills he never expected during his 15 years as an advertising executive.
He’s learned to judge a spelling bee, to tutor young children in reading and how to stretch a spiral ham into a week’s worth of meals.
by Joe Cox
April 4, 2009 in Science
Alumni of Truett-McConnell College from the years 1948 through 1956 are mourning the death of Dr. Lillian Lounell Mullis, greatly beloved religion
by Joe Cox
August 8, 2008 in Science
Published: Wednesday, August 6, 2008 9:36 AM CDT
Avil Snow, Food Science teacher at Heber Springs High School,
and Mrs. Alice Mullis, a Family and Consumer Sciences teacher from
Georgia, attended the 99th Annual Conference and Expo of the
American Association of Family and Consumer Science (AAFCS), which
was held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin June 19-21.
by Joe Cox
September 22, 2007 in Science
The University of Michigan News Service
Feb. 24, 2005
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—An international team of astronomers using the world’s
largest X-ray and optical telescopes have spotted the most distant
massive object ever detected, a cluster of galaxies 9 billion light
years distant from Earth.
The cluster of galaxies is so far away that the
light detected by the team is much older than the Earth itself. The
galaxy cluster, if it is even still there, would be at least 11 billion
years old now.
by Joe Cox
September 14, 2007 in Science
"Everybody likes them on pizza, but nobody wants them in the yard,"
said Sid Mullis, the University of Georgia Extension Service director
for Richmond County.
Typically, late summer and early fall is mushroom time in the south,
when cooler, damper weather activates fungi hidden in local soils.
by Joe Cox
July 17, 2007 in Science
TONY PERRY. "When You’re a Flaky Genius,
Problems Can Cease to Exist :[San Diego County
Edition]. " Los Angeles Times (pre-1997
Fulltext) [Los Angeles, Calif.] 1
Sep. 1991,1. Los Angeles
Times.
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San Diego At Large |
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Metro; PART-B; Metro |
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by Joe Cox
July 17, 2007 in Science
BROWNE, MALCOLM W.. "4 North Americans Win
Nobel Prizes for Science :[Biography]. " New York
Times [New York, N.Y.] 14
Oct. 1993, Late Edition (East Coast):
A.6. New York
Times.
This simple and cheap way to "amplify" DNA has revolutionized
biology in recent years, allowing scientists to study molecules and
molecular chemistry that would otherwise be inaccessible to
ordinary laboratory tools. For example, many scientists in recent
years have used the P.C.R. method to get useful amounts of DNA from
single molecules of DNA surviving in plant and animal fossils.
A "fantastic application" of the P.C.R. technique, the Nobel
committee noted in its announcement yesterday, suggests a
possibility that "has already inspired authors of science fiction"
and "the very popular film ‘Jurassic Park,’ which is about the fear
that arises when researchers using P.C.R. recreate giant extinct
reptiles."
Many scientists believe that science is embattled by lack of
public support and financing. "In these lean times," Dr. [Russell
A. Hulse] said, "our scientific and technical efforts are being
restructured, and we risk destroying a valuable scientific
enterprise."
by Joe Cox
July 17, 2007 in Science
Kary B. Mullis, an intellectual maverick who surfs La Jolla
beaches at sunrise and skates on Rollerblades every night, was
awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday along with Michael
Smith of Vancouver, Canada, for fundamental breakthroughs in
genetics. The Nobel Prize in physics went to two Princeton
University researchers for their discovery of a pulsar that helped
prove Einstein’s theory of relativity.
Kary B. Mullis and Michael Smith won the 1993 Nobel Prize in
chemistry for breakthroughs in genetics, including Mullis’s recipe
for a genetic chain reaction called PCR which allows scientists to
duplicate and analyze the most minute fragments of DNA.
PHOTO: Surfing to Celebrate: An intellectual maverick who surfs
La Jolla beaches at sunrise and skates on Rollerblades every night
was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry. Kary B. Mullis shared the
honor with Michael Smith of Vancouver, Canada, for fundamental
breakthroughs in genetics. The Nobel Prize in physics went to two
Princeton University researchers. At right, Mullis arrives home
after spending the morning surfing. / Agence France-Presse; PHOTO:
Kary B. Mullis; PHOTO: Michael Smith; PHOTO: [Joseph H. Taylor
Jr.]; PHOTO: [Russell A. Hulse]
by Joe Cox
July 17, 2007 in Science
Michael Smith of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver
shares the chemistry prize with Kary B. Mullis of La Jolla, Calif.
Dr. Smith developed ways to splice foreign DNA into an organism’s
genetic instructions. Dr. Mullis developed a technique for making
multiple copies of tiny bits of DNA while he was working at Cetus
Corporation in Emeryville, Calif.
Dr. Mullis, for example, developed his DNA multiplication
technique for his own research purposes. It now is standard in
biotechnology. In fact, it is the technique used to clone dinosaur
DNA in the science-fiction film Jurassic Park.
In physics, Joseph H. Taylor and Russell A. Hulse at Princeton
University in Princeton, N.J., share the prize for discovery of,
and work with, a binary pulsar. This is a pair of superdense stars
that emit regular pulses of radiation. Their powerful gravity
allows astronomers to study effects of Einstein’s general theory of
relativity, such as the warping of space time. This has no economic
relevance. But it is a major scientific development.
"Nobel Prizes Underscore Value of Basic
Science Research :[All 10/20/93
Edition]. " Christian Science Monitor (pre-1997
Fulltext) [Boston, Mass.] 20 Oct. 1993,
NOPGCIT. Christian Science
Monitor
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