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Nov. 18, 2011

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Puzzle of enzyme critical to food supply cracked at SLAC

If we could make plant food from nitrogen the way nature does, we'd have a much greener method for manufacturing fertilizer. Scientists at SLAC have taken an important step toward understanding how nature performs this trick.

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Copernicus: Folding@home for supercomputers

Vijay Pande's chemistry and structural biology group is known for Folding@home, which borrows computing time from home computers to simulate how proteins take shape. Now, other researchers will be able to take advantage of the technology.

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Tag Mansour, Stanford pharmacology leader, dies

Tag Mansour, who led the pharmacology department through more than a decade of growth, died Nov. 4. Born in Egypt, his interest in the biochemistry of parasites was spurred by firsthand knowledge of the suffering they cause around the globe.

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