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In Chapter 5, "The Stable and the Laboratory," author Michael Willrich explores the burgeoning vaccine manufacture industry that ramped up to combat smallpox epidemics in turn-of-the-twentieth-century American cities.
Studying the earliest events in visual development, Carla Shatz has learned the importance of looking at one’s data with open eyes—and an open mind.
Member, Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington. Age: 38
This animation illustrates optogenetics—a radical new technology for controlling brain activity with light. Ed Boyden, the co-inventor of this technology, is a professor at the MIT Media Lab and at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, where he continues to develop new technologies for controlling brain activity.
United Nation officials declare rinderpest the first animal disease to be fully eradicated.
A new report suggests that potential malaria treatments currently under study comprise the largest drug pipeline in history.
The virulent stain that has killed 48 people produces Shiga toxin and sticks to the intestinal wall.
Scientists invent a method to control the timing and duration of sleep in fruit flies and find that snoozing helps form long-term memories
Whether it’s in the arctic or a commonplace kitchen appliance, deadly fungal species wait for the right opportunity to strike
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