2 University of Illinois researchers named HHMI investigators
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Two University of Illinois researchers have been named Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators. Phillip Newmark has been "instrumental in establishing planarians as a model system for studying regeneration at the molecular level." And Wilfred van der Donk will work to identify and exploit new classes of compounds that have potential as antibiotics.
Senate Democrats hinted at payback for Sen. Joe Lieberman, who called Barack Obama an untested candidate beholden to Democratic interest groups in a prime-time GOP convention address.
AFP - Authorities in China's Muslim-populated far northwest are seeking to prevent mass prayers and the distribution of religious material as part of a security crackdown for Ramadan, government notices said.
Reuters - Condoleezza Rice travels to Libya on
Friday, the first trip there by a U.S. secretary of state in 55
years, signaling improved ties between the two countries.
