The biweekly hard-copy newsletter for the week of Jan. 17 is scheduled to be in mailboxes and newsstands this week.Featured on this week's cover is a story on how Laboratory scientists have developed a new protein tagging and detection system based on a process for "splitting" a green fluorescent protein.
On Page 2, Laboratory Director G. Peter Nanos encourages the work force to assist individuals impacted by the earthquake and tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004. Also on Page 2, readers will find several heart healthy and back friendly snow-shoveling tips.
The Laboratory is taking the first steps to consolidate and streamline its policies, procedures and instructions that govern day-to-day-work. Read about this on Page 3. An article by the Laboratory's chief science officer, Tom Bowles, on the progress the Lab has made in enhancing science can also be found on Page 3.
Page 4 includes part three of a four-part series on the Laboratory's best recruiting practices and the feedback feature called "So ... what do you think?
Having analyzed Mars from afar via orbiting satellite, instruments developed at the Laboratory will next be on their way to play in the Martian dirt. Two of the eight instruments aboard NASA's planned Mars Science Laboratory rover include Los Alamos technology. This story can be found on Page 5.
Newsmakers, January service anniversaries, this month in history and more can be found on Pages 6 and 7, and the spotlight on Page 8 features Laboratory employee Jessica Kisiel of Information Technology and Data Analysis (HR-ITDA) who tested the limits of physical exhaustion at the 24 Hours of Adrenalin [sic] race last October in Phoenix.
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