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Scientists in 1993: Note:
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Biologist
Axel Ullrich Seeks Cell
Signaling Secrets
*March 1993
Talk about being in the right place at the right time.
When Axel Ullrich came to the San Francisco Bay Area in the mid-1970s, for ...
Glasgow's
Chris Wilkinson Makes Waves in
Engineering
*April 1993
Scotland has long been boasted of its leadership in
engineering and the applied sciences—and rightly so. James Watt and his ...
Harvard's
Max Essex Assesses Trends in AIDS Research
*May 1993
Exactly 10 years ago, Science magazine
published five papers that dealt with a "serious new disease, acquired immune
deficiency ...
Leigh Canham Sees Bright Future
for Porous Silicon
*June 1993
In 1956, researchers at Bell Laboratories were
developing a technique for polishing the surfaces of two semiconducting ...
Univ. Utah's
Mario Capecchion Gene Targeting
*July/August 1993
Before the development of transgenic animals more than
a decade ago, scientists attempted to unravel the mysteries of ...
Salim Yusuf Discusses the Making of
Meta-Analysis
September/October 1993
One study concludes that drinking more than six cups of
coffee a day doubles the risk of coronary thrombosis. Another study ...
Elizabeth
Blackburn's True Tales of Telomeres
*November 1993
Among scientists who study chromosomes, a basic
question of what lies at the tips of the sausage-shaped mitotic structures has ...
U. Penn's
Stephen Thom on Hyperbaric
Medicine
*December 1993
When the British Medical Journal recently
published a lead editorial on hyperbaric oxygen therapy, it marked something ...
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