Stuart Blackman completed a PhD in evolutionary biology at the University of Edinburgh in 1995 and immediately began working as freelance writer. He has since written for Nature Publishing Group, New Scientist, BBC radio, and The Scientist. On page 17, Blackman writes about a marine bacterium that produces dimethyl sulfide (DMS)- a major source of sulfur in the earth's atmosphere and a long-missing link in the climate system. Some have dubbed the gene for DMS "the weather gene." "I'm so amazed by climate science," says Blackman, "and that researchers are creating climate models and yet we know so little about the processes that create climate."
Ming Chen received a PhD in biochemistry from the State University of New York in 1989. He has been at Bay Pines VA Medical Center since 1993, where he is director of the neurology of aging research laboratory. His research focuses on Alzheimer's disease. In ...
