Disease
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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.
disease, genetics, public perception, research, research blogging
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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, week in review
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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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New & Notable: 11/19 - 11/25
November 28, 2005
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Richard Errett Smalley, “father of nanotechnology”, dies at 62
November 10, 2005
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A Genetic Basis for Alcoholism
October 03, 2005
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Of Mice and Medicine
October 01, 2005
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Innovation
Let There Be Light
Astronomers will soon find scores of Earth-sized exoplanets, but imaging them may be decades away. That is, unless NASA decides to build a starshade.
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Ideas
Into the Uncanny Valley
New findings shed light on a century’s worth of bizarre explanations for the eerie feeling we get around lifelike robots.
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World
Signs from Above
The release of an apocalyptic movie prompts NASA to debunk planetary rumors, fowl play shuts down the LHC, and the Catholic Church discusses alien life.
