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Scientist, serial entrepreneur, strategic thinker, promoter of science & tech innovations to solve global challenges and create a sustainable future.

 Huntsville, AL
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Joined April 2009
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BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”
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BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
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BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.
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@NobelPrize4 Oct 2023
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.”
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BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Physics to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”
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BREAKING NEWS The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
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Finding space for solar panels – DW – 02/10/2023 dw.com/en/finding-space-for-…
Finding space for solar panels

Finding space for solar panels

To achieve an emissions-neutral future, the world will need a lot more photovoltaic systems than we have today. But space is in short supply. So where exactly can we put our solar panels?

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AI is dreaming up drugs that no one has ever seen. Now we've got to see if they work. | MIT Technology Review buff.ly/3XwErrE
AI is dreaming up drugs that no one has ever seen. Now we’ve got to see if they work.

AI is dreaming up drugs that no one has ever seen. Now we’ve got to see if they work.

AI automation throughout the drug development pipeline is opening up the possibility of faster, cheaper pharmaceuticals.

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Forget designer babies. Here’s how CRISPR is really changing lives | MIT Technology Review buff.ly/3mIeUPj
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Nations reach accord to protect marine life on high seas buff.ly/3IU8ioH
Nations reach accord to protect marine life on high seas

Nations reach accord to protect marine life on high seas

For the first time, United Nations members have agreed on a unified treaty to protect biodiversity in the high seas, concluding two weeks of talks in New York.

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Can the dogs of Chernobyl teach us new tricks on survival? buff.ly/3mpQWbG
Can the dogs of Chernobyl teach us new tricks on survival?

Can the dogs of Chernobyl teach us new tricks on survival?

Scientists are studying hundreds of dogs at the Chernobyl disaster site that have managed to survive in extremely harsh conditions.

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Pathways to Sustainable Aviation We have to burn fewer fossil fuels, and eventually phase them out completely. But there’s one place that will be hard: flight. The entire field of plane-based transport and travel is built around fossil-based jet fuel. buff.ly/3ERuJtc
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Welcome to the world of “organoid intelligence”. Scientists want to make a biocomputer powered by human brain cells - MIT Technology Review buff.ly/3BLXxkv
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Does gene editing hold the key to improving mental health? buff.ly/3ZptxW8
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Method created to better remove protein causing Alzheimer’s | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis buff.ly/41aoCKh
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China just got closer to defeating hypersonic weapons with reusable tech buff.ly/3Sg1EgK
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Device for Analyzing Deep Space Could Detect Tumors, Air Particles | NASA Spinoff buff.ly/3xTADXf
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