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A Living Legacy
Megan Scudellari | Jan 13, 2010 | 10 min read
A Living Legacy At the birthplace of stem cell research, the next generation of scientists continues to advance the field. By Megan Scudellari In Toronto’s downtown Discovery District, world-class stem cell researchers populate the buildings like athletes at the Olympics. On University Avenue, Andras Nagy, a renowned innovator in induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, works at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, housed within the towering Mount Sin
Fighting Fraud With DNA
Bennett Daviss | Jun 20, 2004 | 8 min read
Next time you buy a designer shirt, be sure to check the label. What you don't see may surprise you. Hidden within the ink or fibers of that shirt could lie an authentication device made not of plastic or metal, but of DNA."DNA has become the gold standard, the highest barrier to product counterfeiting, diversion, and piracy," says Julia Hunter, executive vice president of Applied DNA Sciences in Los Angeles. In this case, though, the term gold is both literal and figurative. The International C
A Fierce Competitor
Karen Hopkin | Apr 1, 2008 | 7 min read
Christine Jacobs-Wagner's studies of a bacterial species have changed how scientists think about cell shape and polarity.

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