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 Harold Kroto on the Celestial Sphere
that Fell to Earth
*January 1992
Few stories in the annals of contemporary science
provide a stronger argument for pursuing fundamental research than the discovery of ... |
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 Peter H. Seeburg
on Brain Receptor
Functions
*February/March 1992
Of the countless processes occurring in the human body
at any given moment, the activities of the brain hold a particular ... |
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 La Jolla's
Erkki Ruoslahti on
Integrins, Proteoglycans
*April 1992
Throughout the last decade, adhesion has emerged as a
central research theme for cell biologists. During development, adhesion ... |
|
 F. Sherwood Rowland on the Science
and Politics of Ozone Depletion
*May 1992
As Lily Tomlin, comedienne and noted sociologist of
science once observed, "I don't think it's right to destroy the Earth's ozone ... |
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 MIT's
Alan Guth; COBE Findings, Inflation and the Big Bang
*June/July 1992
Until this century, virtually nothing was known of
early events in the universe. Only in the 1960s, with the discovery of the cosmic ... |
|
 Robert
Weinberg Explains the Rise in Research on Tumor Suppressor Genes
*August 1992
Over the past two decades, cancer research has made
great progress. If effective therapies for most types of cancers are ... |
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 Immunologist
Tim Mosmann Targets
T-Cell Subtypes
*September 1992
When the human immune system swings into action,
prompted by any number of bacterial, viral, or parasitic invasions, survival ... |
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 IBM's
Stuart
Parkin Mulls Multilayered Metallic Films
*October 1992
The image of a camel that must pass through the eye of
a needle just about sums up the problem of information delivery ... |
|
 Rudolph Marcus
Reflects on Nobel Prize Winning Work
*November 1992
Few in the chemistry community were surprised when the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize ... |
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 Salk
Institute's Ron Evans Surveys Retinoid Research
*December 1992
Sooner or later, everything that goes on within a cell
is involved in turning genes on or off. It's no coincidence, therefore, that a major ... |
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