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The Race to Nab Cheating Athletes
Anna Azvolinsky | Sep 1, 2019 | 10+ min read
Anti-doping organizations are constantly developing new tests to catch athletes trying to boost their performance in increasingly sophisticated ways.
Can a Vaccine Save the World’s Pigs from African Swine Fever?
Katarina Zimmer | Jan 13, 2020 | 10+ min read
A devastating outbreak of the virus across East Asia has made the long-neglected pathogen a top research priority, but many challenges lie ahead.
Recent Trials for Fragile X Syndrome Offer Hope
Randi Hagerman | Sep 1, 2019 | 10+ min read
Despite a solid understanding of the biological basis of fragile X syndrome, researchers have struggled to develop effective treatments.
Breadth of Biodiversity
Eugene Russo | Sep 13, 1998 | 2 min read
BIODIVERSITY ABOUNDS: Algae and sponges line the underwater ledges of Navassa, a tiny, uninhabited island in the Caribbean that recently got a rare visit from scientists. A recent expedition has revealed an unexpected breadth of biological diversity on a rare untouched patch of wilderness. Led by Center for Marine Conservation (CMC) scientists Michael Smith and Nina Young, 14 researchers set out to survey a tiny U.S.-owned island 40 miles west of Haiti in the Greater Antilles. Part of the Unite
Citation Analysis Reveals Immunology's Elite Researchers And Institutions
The Scientist Staff | Sep 3, 1995 | 3 min read
Editor's Note: Recently, the newsletter Science Watch--published by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in Philadelphia--ranked the citation records of immunology papers published from 1990 to 1994 (6:1-2, May 1995). The report was an update of a similar Science Watch survey of the literature for 1986 to 1990, published three years ago. The recent study, however, also included a listing of highly cited authors, ordered according to the number of citations to their published works in
A Virus moves West
Janet Ginsburg | Sep 21, 2003 | 2 min read
Click to view a PDF of the virus' spread across the U.S. (244K) Humans, birds, and mosquitoes propelled the spread of West Nile Virus in the US from coast to coast in less than four years. Various secondary cycles played a part as well. (see West Nile: The Virus that Came to Stay) Map adapted from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data; other information compiled by Janet Ginsburg (jgstories@yahoo.com). function sendData() { document.frm.pathName.value = location.pathname; re
RAMPs on Trial
Jack Lucentini | Sep 7, 2003 | 2 min read
Click to view a PDF of antimicrobial peptides in various living organisms (141K) Living organisms produce a vast array of germ-killing peptides as their first-line of defense against infection. Scientists began to learn of these molecules in the 1980s from studies by Hans Boman and colleagues at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. They found that silkworm moth pupae secrete certain peptides that destroy invading bacteria. These controversial peptides (see Antibiotic Arms Race Heats Up) are
Frontlines
Hal Cohen | Sep 29, 2002 | 6 min read
Frontlines Image: Anna Powers Social thinking Planning a future, knowing your limitations, following moral rules--these and other uniquely human capacities will be the focus of a research project at California Institute of Technology funded by a million dollar grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Associate Professor of philosophy Steven Quartz will lead an interdisciplinary team of social scientists and neurobiologists who will use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMR
Science in a New Light
Carol Wright-smith | Sep 17, 2000 | 9 min read
Microscopy Image Analysis Software Actin (red), mitochrondria (green), and nucleus (blue) signals merged by Scanalytics' IPLab Software The science of microscopy, especially how microscopic observations are made and data are collected and displayed, has come a long way since the days of Carl Zeiss. The last decade has seen a resurgence in the use of optical microscopy in basic research, due in part to advances in instrumentation. Confocal technology, high resolution solid state cameras such as
When Postdocs Change Their Minds; Keys to Computing; Researchers Find Key to Long Life
Gordon Keller | Sep 7, 2003 | 4 min read
TIP TROVE | When Postdocs Change Their Minds Courtesy of Gordon Keller If you're not excited about what you're doing, you're just not going to do it well. Mentors should encourage independent thinking. If postdocs want to change the direction of their projects, or explore new avenues, I certainly encourage it. However, if you find that you've chosen an area of research that doesn't interest you, I would advise you to think carefully about your choices ... and if you are absolutely certain y

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