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    AIDS: Evolution of an Epidemic
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    Why has it been so hard to develop a vaccine against HIV? How are new medicines revolutionizing AIDS treatment? Can AIDS be cured?
    Making Your Mind: Molecules, Motion, and Memory
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    What is mind? Can molecular biology help us understand mental function?
    Viral Outbreak: The Science of Emerging Disease
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    Watch two leading virus reasearchers explain how they use both simple and sophisticated technologies to detect and fight infectious agents.
    Changing Planet: Past, Present, Future
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    Has Earth changed over deep time? How did Earth shape life and life shape Earth? What does Earth's climate in the distant past tell us about the future?
    Bones, Stones, and Genes: The Origin of Modern Humans
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    Where and when did humans arise? What distinguishes us from other species? Did our distant ancestors look and behave like us?
    Evolution: Constant Change and Common Threads
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    How has the amazing diversity of plants and animals evolved? What can fossils, butterflies, and stickleback fish tell us about the deep common ancestry of all living forms?
    Exploring Biodiversity: The Search for New Medicines
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    What medical secrets do venomous snails hold? How can listening in on bacterial conversations help develop new antibiotics? In four presentations, Dr. Bonnie L. Bassler and Dr. Baldomero M. Olivera reveal how a deeper understanding of nature and biodiversity informs their research into new...
    Potent Biology: Stem Cells, Cloning, and Regeneration
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    Doug Melton and Nadia Rosenthal are leaders in stem cell research, working primarily with mouse and human tissue. They will discuss where embryonic and adult stem cells come from and the biology of how they supply the cells the body needs.
    The Double Life of RNA
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    In four lectures, Nobel laureate Thomas R. Cech, PhD, discusses the ability of RNA to act as more than just an intermediary between DNA and proteins.
    Clockwork Genes: Discoveries in Biological Time
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    Four lectures highlight the research of two scientists who have made groundbreaking discoveries elucidating the molecular basis of circadian clocks—the internal timekeepers that govern fluctuations in behavior and physiology on a 24-hour cycle.
    2000 and Beyond: Confronting the Microbe Menace
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    In four presentations, Donald E. Ganem, MD, and B. Brett Finlay, PhD, discuss the latest advances in understanding how pathogens invade the body and how this knowledge is leading to the development of new therapies. They also explain how new infectious diseases are recognized and how epidemics...
    Of Hearts and Hypertension: Blazing Genetic Trails
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    In four lectures, Richard P. Lifton, MD, PhD, and Christine E. Seidman, MD, discuss their groundbreaking work in using genetic and molecular approaches to understand cardiovascular diseases.
    Senses and Sensitivity: Neuronal Alliances for Sight and Sound
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    In four talks, A. James Hudspeth, MD, PhD, and Jeremy H. Nathans, MD, PhD, discuss how sensory information is encoded and transmitted to the brain. They describe the detailed workings of two senses of great importance to humans—vision and hearing.
    Learning from Patients: The Science of Medicine
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    As part of the 2003 Holiday Lectures on Science, Dr. Bert Vogelstein and Dr. Huda Y. Zoghbi discuss how their patients have led to a deeper understanding of the genetic and molecular bases of neurological disorders and cancer. Thanks to these patients, researchers can now apply the knowledge...
    The Immune System: Friend and Foe
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    A wide overview of the immune system, presented by HHMI investigators John W. Kappler, PhD, and Philippa Marrack, PhD
    The Science of Fat
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    In the 2004 Holiday Lectures on Science, HHMI investigators Ronald M. Evans and Jeffrey M. Friedman discuss how the body regulates weight by carefully controlling the storage and burning of fat—and how a better understanding of these complex metabolic systems could lead researchers to treatments...
    Evolution: Fossils, Genes, and Mousetraps
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    Leading evolution educator Ken Miller discusses the controversy surrounding the teaching of evolution.
    Scanning Life's Matrix: Genes, Proteins, and Small Molecules
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    In four presentations, Stuart L. Schreiber, PhD, and Eric S. Lander, PhD, open a window onto the fast-paced world of genomic science and chemical genetics.
    The Meaning of Sex: Genes and Gender
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    Four talks focus on sex determination—the molecular and genetic mechanisms that determine whether an organism will be male, female or a hermaphrodite.
    The Making of the Fittest
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    This series of short films has been crafted to engage students with memorable examples of the evolutionary process in action.