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Rocket Man
If you're a serious surfer—and Steven
F. Dowdy qualifies—you act nonchalant as you bob on your board, chatting
with other surfers.  More
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Play On
Lacing up his fútbol shoes, for biochemist Fernando Goldbaum, is the first step in rebooting his brain. More
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Found in Translation
Bringing the autobiography of a Jewish scientist, who narrowly escaped the Holocaust... More
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Chasing Amyloid
Though it's taken decades, solving the mystery behind the structure of this errant protein has opened a door to new therapies.
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Alter Ego
One protein encourages prostate cancer and another
stifles it. Both are encoded by the same gene. More
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Innate Survival
The nervous system is responsible for part of rapid-response immunity.  More
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Fire Ant!
Mississippi high school students are getting up close and personal with this pervasive pest—all in the name of biology. More
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2008 Holiday Lectures: Making Your Mind
This year's lectures delved into the complexities of the mind, memory, and movement. More
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A Call for Collaboration
Pilot program from HHMI awards $40 million
to eight multidisciplinary teams. More
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Probing Pigs
A porcine model of cystic fibrosis
helps researchers study the disease.
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Avoiding Rupture
Genetic clues could provide advance warning
of brain aneurysm rupture. More
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Sleep-Inducing Monsters
A drug for transplant patients also kills the parasites that cause African sleeping sickness by grossly distorting their shape and blocking cell division.
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Crystal Clear
A master practitioner initiates young
scientists into the arcane craft of crystallography.
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