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Two Radically Different Metabolic Processes Octopus Spring in Yellowstone National Park is one of the most inhospitable places on the planet. Yet, life fourishes there at temperatures that reach nearly 90°C (194° F), close to ... Read more |
Pushing the Buy Button "Do you prefer Pepsi or Coke?" used to be the big question when we were growing up: as kids, we fought for our favorite brand, claiming that Pepsi was too ... Read more |
Spying on the Grim Reaper Apoptosis is a normal physiological process of programmed cell death or “cell suicide” that eliminates damaged or stressed cells. Errors in apoptosis are involved in approximately 70% of human diseases ... Read more |
Everyone Counts According to a 2007 report by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, “16,119 species of animals and plants are threatened with extinction and many ecosystems – wetlands, forests ... Read more |
Think Positively The image of the “grumpy old man” may be more myth than reality. Recent research by Dr. Laura Carstensen, a Stanford professor in the Department of Psychology and director of ... Read more |
The Invisible Polluter The next time you reach for that bottle of Advil or that cup of coffee as you try to fend off an on-setting headache and to gain a few more ... Read more |
Unraveling the Genetics of Colon Cancer In the 9.3 minutes it takes you to skim through this magazine, one person in the United States will have died from colon cancer. According to the American Cancer Society's ... Read more |
Amazing Ants Imagine walking through the Amazon rainforest. Trees surround you, blocking out the sky, plants and insects swarm on every surface, and unseen animals rustle through the canopy above. Suddenly, you ... Read more |
The Ticking of Internal Clocks Many organisms have circadian rhythms, internal clocks that are closely linked to the light-dark cycle of a day. Generally, if an organism’s internal clock is unsynchronized, it continues to live ... Read more |
Biochemistry Genius Uncovered Over a span of nine days in September, Stanford Associate Professor of Biochemistry Pehr Harbury was awarded two grants guaranteeing him no less than $3 million in research money for ... Read more |
Small RNA, Big Potential for Treating HCV The estimated 170 million people infected with Hepatitis C virus (HCV) have been living with limited medical options. There is no cure for HCV, and today’s therapies work in only ... Read more |
Not Just Biology How do dramatic ecological shifts precipitate the outbreak of latent infectious diseases? Professor William Durham, the chair of the Anthropological Sciences Department at Stanford University, and his colleague, Assistant Professor ... Read more |
Open Source Drug Development Share and you’ll succeed. This is the motto for the open source software movement that started in the 1990s. It is characterized by the free sharing of software to a ... Read more |
Diabetes and Calcineurin “The cause of diabetes continues to be a mystery,” states the American Diabetes Association (ADA) on its website. However, Stanford Medical School Professors Seung Kim and Gerald Crabtree, along with ... Read more |
Surgery In The Field “Saying ‘blood clot’ is not taught in most French classes,” said Professor Sherry Wren.Wren, a Professor of Surgery and Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs at the Stanford University School of ... Read more |
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