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Roger Unger, Endocrinologist and Authority on Diabetes, Dies

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Laura Bowers Works to Sever the Link Between Obesity and Cancer

Self-Control Center in the Brain Linked to Weight Loss

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One Gene Influences 75 Percent of Alzheimer’s Disease Cases

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A Stubborn Gene, a Failed Experiment, and a New Path

When experiments refuse to cooperate, you try again and again. For Rafael Najmanovich, the setbacks ultimately pushed him in a new direction.

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Maximizing Cancer Research Model Systems

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