Gillian Bates of King's College on Huntington's Disease Nov/Dec
1999
Science is known to be a collaborative endeavor, but few collaborations have ever been so spectacularly successful as the search for...
HHMI's
Gerald M. Rubin on the Drosophila Genome Sept/Oct
1999
In the lingo they’ve been known for the better part of the century as
"Drosophilists" or often just "fly people." These...
NCI's Curtis C. Harris on p53 and
Carcinogenesis
July/August 1999
What happens at the molecular level to convert a normal cell
into a cancer cell? That fundamental question lies at ...
Black Holes and
Beyond:
Harvard's Andrew Strominger
on String Theory
May/June 1999
When superstring theory arrived in physics in 1984 as a
potential theory of the universe, it was considered by mainstream ...
UCSD's Michael Karin on Signaling
Pathways
March/April 1999
The 20 microns between the cell membrane and the genetic material in the cell nucleus is
the playground of the molecules ...
MIT's Wolfgang Ketterle Gets Coherent on
Atoms
January/February 1999
In 1995, Wolfgang Ketterle astounded the quiet world of atomic physics with the
announcement that his group at ...