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Cancer Vaccination as a Promising New Treatment Against Tumors
Shelby Bradford, PhD | Mar 15, 2024 | 10+ min read
Vaccination has beaten back infections for more than a century. Now, it may be the next big step in battling cancer.
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Engineering the Microbiome: CRISPR Leads the Way
Mariella Bodemeier Loayza Careaga, PhD | Mar 15, 2024 | 10+ min read
Scientists have genetically modified isolated microbes for decades. Now, using CRISPR, they intend to target entire microbiomes.
June 2019 Contributors
Contributors
The Scientist | Jun 1, 2019 | 3 min read
Meet some of the people featured in the June 2019 issue of The Scientist.
Bioterrorism Research: New Money, New Anxieties
John Dudley Miller | Apr 6, 2003 | 8 min read
Ned Shaw US scientists have reason to feel both heady and scared. The federal government recently released unprecedented billions of dollars to fund bioterrorism research. Yet, the merits of this sudden shift in focus are being debated, and some worry that the money will be squandered or wasted. "I have been really very upset by the focus on bioterrorism," says Stanley Falkow, professor of microbiology and immunology and of medicine at Stanford University. "Everybody's talking about it, but th
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Life Science Conference Disruptions Due to Coronavirus
The Scientist | Mar 5, 2020 | 8 min read
Find out which meetings have been canceled, postponed, or are going ahead as planned.
60 Members Elected to NAS
Barry Palevitz | Jun 25, 2000 | 6 min read
Editor's Note: On May 2, the National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 60 new members and 15 foreign associates from nine countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Nearly half of the new members are life scientists. In this article, The Scientist presents photographs of some of the new members and comments from a few of them on their careers and on past and current research. A full directory of NAS members can be found online a
Easy Jump for H5N1 from Bird to Mammal
Ruth Williams | May 2, 2013 | 3 min read
Hybrid viruses derived from an H5N1 bird flu strain can infect guinea pigs through the air.
Notebook
The Scientist Staff | Aug 20, 1995 | 7 min read
Panels Under The Axe Human-Embryo Research Opposition Telemedicine Delivers A Diagnosis Symposia Mark Pasteur's Passing Microbiologists Stake Home Page Dr. Seuss, Capitalist Tool Funding Novice Biomedical Faculty Math Medalists The AIDS Research Evaluation Working Group and six Area Review Panels currently charged with evaluating all National Institutes of Health-sponsored AIDS research (B. Goodman, The Scientist, July 10, 1995, page 1) find themselves facing a challenge they may not be abl
Scientists at the Summit
Bob Calandra | Dec 1, 2003 | 7 min read
Courtesy of University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Roy Herbst In those rare moments when Roy Herbst isn't seeing a patient or assessing the results of his research, he's aware of the quickening pace of time. So much of his time has been absorbed with education, training, mulling choices, and making hard decisions, each with potential to twist his life in a new direction. Somewhere in between the classes, the residency, the research, and the promotions, 22 years have slipped by.
Biological Terrorism
Jennifer Fisher Wilson | Nov 11, 2001 | 8 min read
One warning came in black-and-white in 1993: A U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment report projected that releasing 100 kilograms of aerosolized anthrax spores upwind of the U.S. capital could kill between 130,000 and 3 million people-a lethality at least matching that of a hydrogen bomb. Last year, a U.S. Justice Department exercise revealed that discharging pneumonic plague in Denver could create 3,700 or more cases, with an estimated 950 or more deaths within a week.1 Then, acco

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