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Hákon Hákonarson and deCODE genetics CEO Kári Stefánsson used to consider each other friends. Hákonarson, the former vice president of business development at the Icelandic biopharmaceutical company, used to ride horses with Stefánsson and spend time with him outside of work. That all ended in May, 2006, when Hákonarson left deCODE to direct and help form the new Center for Applie

A Taconic animal care technician inspects a genetically engineered mouse model in a gnotobiotic isolator at the Germantown, NY facility. Credit: Courtesy of Taconic" />A Taconic animal care technician inspects a genetically engineered mouse model in a gnotobiotic isolator at the Germantown, NY facility. Credit: Courtesy of Taconic In the world of lab-mouse breeders, only a few players are in the big leagues. In re

Max Rothschild (left) in Uganda. Credit: courtesy of Max Rothschild" />Max Rothschild (left) in Uganda. Credit: courtesy of Max Rothschild The Rothschild lineage is often associated with Jewish tradition, banking, and fantastic wines. But Max Rothschild, a researcher at Iowa State University, is associated with some decidedly nonkosher animals: pigs. And, more recently, shrimp. When he was about 7 or 8 years old, Rothschild had a different kind

Log cfu/ml of bacteria recovered from sterile water in which crackers had been dipped 3 or 6 times, discarded after each dip, with or without being bitten before dipping. Credit: Data courtesy of Paul Dawson" />Log cfu/ml of bacteria recovered from sterile water in which crackers had been dipped 3 or 6 times, discarded after each dip, with or without being bitten before dipping. Credit: Data courtesy of Paul Dawson Who hasn't in

Credit: Courtesy of Biotek Instruments Inc." /> Credit: Courtesy of Biotek Instruments Inc. In the late 1970s, researchers who wanted to quantify the results of new immunoprecipitation assays, such as ELISA, had three choices: risk human error and a headache by using a manual reader, break out the cuvets and the spectrophotometer, or pay as much as $15,000 for a bulky automated reader. In 1981, Winooski, Vt.-base

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Whole brain slices from the Yakovlev-Haleem collection. Credit: Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine, AFIP, Photo: ® Jason varney | Varneyphoto.com" />Whole brain slices from the Yakovlev-Haleem collection. Credit: Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine, AFIP, Photo: ® Jason varney | Varneyphoto.com

Aedes aegypti mosquito larva with a PTEN homolog and DsRed marker inserted into its genome. Credit: courtesy of Robert Harrell" />Aedes aegypti mosquito larva with a PTEN homolog and DsRed marker inserted into its genome. Credit: courtesy of Robert Harrell Dave O'Brochta places his fingers on a net that covers the top of a bucket containing hundreds of Anopheles stephensi, a mosquito responsible for transmitting malaria. The mosquitoes slowly g

Judy and George Reimer, who met as healthy volunteers and married Credit: Photo by Bill Branson, NIH Medical Arts. Photo courtesy of the NIH Clinical Center" />Judy and George Reimer, who met as healthy volunteers and married Credit: Photo by Bill Branson, NIH Medical Arts. Photo courtesy of the NIH Clinical Center In 1958, Jim Conrad, a Mennonite from Oregon, volunteered to eat the same solid foods every day for several weeks, then nothing but corn oil and skim mil

What if preventing millions of deaths in children every year were as simple as a little transgenic technology and a favorite food that's a dime a dozen, proverbially speaking? To Peter Lachmann, at the University of Cambridge in England, it might be just that straightforward. Related Articles Science Applied to the Greatest Needs Implementing Change Lab Transformation Lachmann is convinced that antibody-enriched egg whites may be the key

David Liu's group supercharged green fluorescent protein (left) with a super positive (middle) and super negative (right) charge. Credit: David Liu / Reprinted with permission from American Chemical Society,J Am Chem Soc, 129:10110–2, 2007." />David Liu's group supercharged green fluorescent protein (left) with a super positive (middle) and super negative (right) charge. Credit: David Liu / Reprinted with permission from American Chemical Society,J Am Chem Soc, 129:

Philip Larkin examines the last of his transgenic poppies growing in a greenhouse at the Black Mountain Laboratory in Canberra, Australia. Credit: Courtesy of Brendan Borrell" />Philip Larkin examines the last of his transgenic poppies growing in a greenhouse at the Black Mountain Laboratory in Canberra, Australia. Credit: Courtesy of Brendan Borrell Out of a dozen transgenic plants in Philip Larkin's greenhouse at Black Mountain Laboratory in Canberra, only two sho