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Stem Cells: Safe Haven For TB
Nsikan Akpan | Feb 5, 2013 | 3 min read
Tuberculosis bacteria find shelter from drugs and the body’s defenses in bone marrow stem cells.
Updated July 9
Track COVID-19 Vaccines Advancing Through Clinical Trials
The Scientist | Apr 7, 2020 | 10+ min read
Find the latest updates in this one-stop resource, including efficacy data and side effects of approved shots, as well as progress on new candidates entering human studies.
Outwitting the Perfect Pathogen
Megan Scudellari | Jan 1, 2014 | 8 min read
Tuberculosis is exquisitely adapted to the human body. Researchers need a new game plan for beating it.
Of Cells and Limits
Anna Azvolinsky | Mar 1, 2015 | 9 min read
Leonard Hayflick has been unafraid to speak his mind, whether it is to upend a well-entrenched dogma or to challenge the federal government. At 86, he’s nowhere near retirement.
African Sleeping Sickness: A Recurring Epidemic
Ricki Lewis | May 12, 2002 | 5 min read
African trypanosomiasis is making an unwelcome comeback. But unlike other returning diseases, this one has a drug treatment—eflornithine—that disappeared from the market when it failed to cure cancer. Yet like Viagra's origin from a curious side effect in a clinical trial, so too was eflornithine reborn. "When it was discovered that it removes mustaches in women, it suddenly had a market: western women with mustaches," says Morten Rostrup, president of the international council for M
Show Me The Money: Prokaryotic Expression Vectors And Purification Systems
Thomas F Unger | Sep 1, 1997 | 10+ min read
Face it, you're an agent! Scientists should really consider themselves professional promoters-promoters not too different from the type portrayed in a not-to-be-mentioned recent movie (it made enough money). Our clients are not jocks looking for some franchise to pick up a multi-year contract; our clients are genes that have biologically-athletic capabilities. Consider that genes are not just average run-of-the-mill sequences playing weekend pick-up games whenever they get enough friends togeth
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Simon Silver | Jul 8, 1990 | 7 min read
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