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Boiling Point of Emotions When watching shock drama television shows such as Nip/Tuck and Law & Order: SVU, people often turn away in disgust at the excessive blood, open flesh, and story lines that ... Volume 7, Issue 1 | Kevin Weiner | Saturday, 4 April 2009 Read More |
Discovering Cellular Immortality The concept of immortality has intrigued mankind since the very beginning. From the first major literary work, the Epic of Gilgamesh, to the Bible and other religious texts to modern ... Volume 7, Issue 1 | Vivek Athalye | Saturday, 4 April 2009 Read More |
Putting the 'Me' Back in Medicine Western medicine has progressed significantly since its humble beginnings, when doctors carrying their tool bags would travel to patients’ houses by horse and buggy or even on foot. Early physicians ... Volume 7, Issue 1 | Ashley Lau | Saturday, 4 April 2009 Read More |
New AIDS Drugs Target Resistant Virus Watch out, viruses: the recent FDA approval of two new classes of antiretroviral medications promises to turn the tables in the fight against HIV/AIDS. While several powerful drug treatments have ... Volume 7, Issue 1 | Adrienne Sussman | Saturday, 4 April 2009 Read More |
Snakes and Newts at War Could you dedicate your life to a newt? Stanford’s postdoctoral biologist, Dr. Charles Hanifin, probably will.In a study published on March 11, 2008 in the renowned journal, PLoS Biology, Hanifin ... Volume 7, Issue 1 | Annie Peterson | Saturday, 4 April 2009 Read More |
Genomic Health For many of us, the ability to select from and customize products to suit our individual needs has long been a given. From personalized ringtones to tailored wardrobes, we consume ... Volume 7, Issue 1 | Ryan Tong | Saturday, 4 April 2009 Read More |
Ancestral Origins Many preconceptions about individuals start with the assumption that a person's ethnicity can be judged by simply looking at her or her physical traits. Eyes, skin, even hair all yield ... Volume 7, Issue 1 | Nikki Breaux | Saturday, 4 April 2009 Read More |
When Immune Systems Attack We are surrounded by microbes bent on using us as their own incubators. Our only defense is our immune system. Without the intricately woven meshwork of defenders, our bodies would ... Volume 4, Issue 1 | Jonathan Frohnmayer and Tammy Doukas | Monday, 12 October 2009 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 ... Volume 4, Issue 1 | Jian Cui | Monday, 12 October 2009 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 ... Volume 4, Issue 1 | Adrienne Sussman | Wednesday, 14 October 2009 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 ... Volume 4, Issue 1 | Hahn Nguyen | Wednesday, 14 October 2009 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 ... Volume 4, Issue 1 | Stephanie Oberfoell | Wednesday, 14 October 2009 Read More |
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