SUMC in the News (12/04/08)
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Multimedia microbes and media in Dec. 9 performance piece at Stanford
Yang Jiechang, an acclaimed Chinese artist who works with ink painting, installation and performance, will give a public talk and multimedia performance, In God We Trust, on Dec. 9. Jiechang is recipient of this year’s Sterling Visiting Professorship in the Department of Chemical and Systems Biology.
Print media coverage
United Press International, 12/03/08
Online tool for protein analysis created
Scientists around the world may benefit from a powerful new database, available for free online, that will help them to home in on the parts of proteins most necessary for their function. ProPhylER was created by Arend Sidow, associate professor of pathology and of genetics, who is quoted in this article.
Internet/ New media coverage
Nature.com, 12/03/08
Melanoma in mice casts doubt on scarcity of cancer stem cells
The rare cancer stem cells thought to seed cancer growth are not so rare after all, according to researchers in Michigan. Michael Clarke, the Karel H. and Avice N. Beekhuis Professor in Cancer Biology, is mentioned in this article.
WebMD.com, 12/03/08
Sleep labs: Rx for better shut-eye
This article discusses the benefits of an overnight stay at a sleep disorder lab. Clete Kushida, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, director of the Stanford Center for Human Sleep Research and acting medical director for the Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic, provides comment here.
Broadcast media coverage
KTVU-TV, 12/03/08
During this segment, Alan Greene, clinical professor of pediatrics with Lucile Packard Children's Children's Hospital, discussed organic food for your children.
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