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March 2008
RANDALL MOON describes how an off-the-cuff experiment over Christmas break 20 years ago surprisingly produced a hundred tadpoles with two heads - and perhaps, ultimately, a new target for cancer and Alzheimer therapies. |
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Public health interventions designed to improve conditions in the developing world rarely tack on follow-up studies to figure out what went right - and what went wrong. BOB GRANT traveled to Haiti to investigate how one scientist's approach to reducing his country's death rate among children admitted to the hospital for diarrhea from 44% to 1% could revolutionize the way we improve public health. |
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Best Places to Work 2008: Postdocs How does your institution compare in our sixth annual survey? Plus, JONATHAN SCHEFF reports that in a tight funding environment, institutions are finding creative ways to boost benefits for postdocs. |
RELATED: Gladstone: Attentive at the top Slideshow: Top 2008 Institutions Ranking Tables: Top 35 US Institutions
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EDITORIAL Science Applied to the Greatest Needs Having failed the developing world, are we now getting it right? COLUMNS It's Not Just About Innovation New ideas are cheap; what we really need are scientists who can see them through. Translational Disconnect Bioscience innovation is in crisis. What can we do about it? NOTEBOOK The Agenda; Lab transformation; Slideshow: Insect Transformation Laboratory at UMBI; An abnormal reunion; Immunity for breakfast?; Supercharging proteins; Poppy power FOUNDATIONS A Brain Collection, 1862-present PROFILES Crystal Clear High school dropout Peter Kwong has solved the structures of some of nature's toughest proteins. Scientist to Watch: Zemer Gitai Modeling life's architecture BIOBUSINESS: The People's CSO Millennium Pharmaceuticals' Joe Bolen has kept scientists' morale high through wrenching changes. THE LITERATURE Hot paper: Autophagy Revisited Even healthy cells require this catabolic process. Hot paper in Neuroscience: Spine control Hot paper in Systems Biology: Promiscuous receptors Hot paper in Phylogenetics: Trading in trees Citation Classic: 50 Years Ago in Pharmacology The first chemical method for measuring levels of catecholamine. LAB TOOLS Peak Addition How to get numbers from mass spectrometry. Plus, profiles of Mass Spec users: Easy numbers; Clean targeting; Multiplex counts and Metabolic power. And Tips for Quantifying Mass Spec CAREERS If You Build It... How to create a great laboratory Web site. Plus results from The Scientist's Laboratory Web and Video Awards (LaWVA). |