The Personnel Touch FightAIDS@Home has evolved considerably over the past year, both in terms of personnel and in new directions for our research. In addition, we have received the good news that we have been awarded a five year National Institute of Health grant to support our Program Project “Resistance Driven Design of HIV Therapeutics.” This Program Project, directed by Prof. Olson, enables...

Light-harvesting components of photosynthetic organisms are complex, coupled, many-body quantum systems, in which electronic coherence has recently been shown to survive for relatively long timescales, despite the decohering effects of their environments. Here, we analyse entanglement in multichromophoric light-harvesting complexes, and establish methods for quantification of entanglement by de...

This commentary on Gow and Olson questions in three ways their conclusion that speech perception is based on interactive processing. First, it is not clear that the data presented by Gow and Olson reflect normal speech recognition. Second, Gow and Olson’s conclusion depends on still-debated assumptions about the functions performed by specific brain regions. Third, the results are compatible wi...

In recent years many efforts have been made aiming to define the conditions of the reaction of substitution which lead to inversion of configuration (Walden inversion). The investigations in this direction of Polanyi et al.,’ of Olson,2 of Hughes, Ingold, et aL3 are most outstanding. Polanyi et al. and Olson came to the conclusion that all reactions of substitution by a negative group or ion ar...