Disease
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On Curing Everything
March 02, 2011
Nobel Prize-winning chemist Kary Mullis offers a radical new way to treat infectious diseases as the effectiveness of our current antibiotics wanes.
biotechnology, disease, global reset, health, medicine, research
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On Delivering Vaccines
December 30, 2010
Vaccine deployment is a challenge in the third world with its unreliable power grids and roads. We need a self-sufficient device—a super thermos—to surmount this lack of infrastructure.
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Mosquito Noses and Baby Brains
February 23, 2010
In this week's Findings Log, we examine new research that studies mosquitoes' sense of smell, bilingual babies, brain-computer interfaces, and more.
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Zero-Sum Game
February 19, 2010
With two power-players—Bill Gates and Barack Obama—placing their bets on nuclear energy, another round of debate begins over its place in a carbon-free future.
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Battle of the Viral Mutations
February 03, 2010
Viruses like H1N1 and HIV are hard for biomedical researchers to tackle because they mutate so readily. Will scientists uncover new treatments before the viruses adapt again?
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Many Minds, One Story
February 02, 2010
Virginia Woolf’s mental illness may have ultimately defined her craft—one that rejected convention in a decades-long attempt to portray the very character of consciousness.
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TV’s Unintended Consequences
December 23, 2009
The proliferation of passive sedentary activities like television viewing has led to inactive lifestyles and decreased physical fitness. But can TV positively affect health as well?
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Monkey See, Monkey Juice
September 18, 2009
An elegant gene therapy trial “cures” colorblindness in monkeys and new film about Darwin attempts to drum up some controversy.
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Signal to Noise
August 19, 2009
What we’re learning about pancreatic cancer now—and why the cure remains so elusive.
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Malaria: Five New Weapons
June 11, 2009
Profiles of the most promising and innovative approaches to fighting malaria, from a living drug pump to strategic computer models.
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A Not-So-Silent Spring
June 11, 2009
The evidence is growing of long-term health problems related to spraying DDT in homes in the developing world.
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Week in Review: May 1
May 01, 2009
Swine flu looms large, a study finds prayer has no effect on medical treatment, Obama speaks at the National Academy of Sciences, neuroscientists plan to beef up Wikipedia, and a Republican senator switches to the Democratic Party.
diplomacy, disease, ethics, information, pandemics, politics
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The Parasite Puzzle
April 27, 2009
How one of Africa’s deadliest pathogens uses on-the-fly, genetic costume changes to outsmart our immune system.
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The Unraveling of Homogeny
April 09, 2009
Testing mice as individuals instead of one and the same may cut down on experimental errors and lead to significantly cheaper, more efficient drug testing.
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A Hormone to Remember
February 17, 2009
Oxytocin emerges as a key player in our facility for social memory.
cognition, disease, enhancement, medicine, neuroscience, research
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Safeguarding Biology
February 02, 2009
Can biotechnology safely reverse the course of our deteriorating biosphere?
biotechnology, cooperation, decision making, disease, research
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Seed Picks 2008
December 23, 2008
Seed selects the year's outstanding book releases, from Mary Roach's sex book, Bonk, to E.O. Wilson's ant colony opus, The Superorganism.
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Predicting Outbreaks
December 17, 2008
Satellites, a shift in epidemiology, and Google combine to stop disease before it starts.
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How We Evolve
October 07, 2008
A growing number of scientists argue that human culture itself has become the foremost agent of biological change.
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Flu Beginnings
August 14, 2008
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Science in 2006
January 16, 2006
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The Week in Science: 1/06 - 1/12
January 13, 2006
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The AIDS Riddle
December 01, 2005
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World AIDS Day
November 30, 2005
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New & Notable: 11/19 - 11/25
November 28, 2005
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Ideas
I Tried Almost Everything Else
John Rinn, snowboarder, skateboarder, and “genomic origamist,” on why we should dumpster-dive in our genomes and the inspiration of a middle-distance runner.
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Ideas
Going, Going, Gone
The second most common element in the universe is increasingly rare on Earth—except, for now, in America.
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Ideas
Earth-like Planets Aren’t Rare
Renowned planetary scientist James Kasting on the odds of finding another Earth-like planet and the power of science fiction.
