Profile: Stephen Lewis

Profile of Stephen Beverley.

During high school, Stephen M. Beverley attended a Science Day event at the California Institute of Technology. As he explored research laboratories, he felt that the entire world of science was open to him. “It just seemed like a candy shop,” he says. Beverley’s inquisitive pursuit of scientific truth has led him to study the factors that make the parasite Leishmania a devastating human scourg...

Profile of Stephen C. West.

Biochemist StephenWest attended university to avoid a lifetime of working with fish. Growing up near Hull, Yorkshire, England, West saw the swollen hands of the dock workers who spent their days filleting fish under icecoldwater. His father, a fish buyer, would comehomewith his arms covered in scales. “I don’t think I ever expected to be a successful scientist, though,” West says. “Just a job t...

Profile of Stephen T. Warren.

In 1991 Stephen Warren, a geneticist who studies certain forms of intellectual disability, and his collaborators identified the gene mutation responsible for fragile X syndrome, a commonly inherited form of cognitive impairment associated with autism. Since then, Warren and his colleagues have continued to study fragile X syndrome, paving the way for the development of drugs to treat the condit...

Profile: Lewis Gordon Pugh--polar swimmer.

Stephen H Bryant and Stephen F Altschul

The past two years have seen the rapid development of new recognition methods for protein structure prediction. These algorithms ’thread’ the sequence of one protein through the known structure of another, looking for an alignment that corresponds to an energetically favorable model structure. Because they are based on energy calculation, rather than evolutionary distance, these methods extend ...