Cambridge’s
Randy J.
Read: Crystallography vs. Disease Nov/Dec 2006 With the sequencing of the human genome now largely a done deal, researchers have turned their attention to...
U. Washington’s
Younan
Xia–An Eye on Nanotech’s Big Picture Sep/Oct
2006 How big is a billionth of a meter? The answer, as the Harvard chemist
George Whitesides once remarked, depends on...
MIT’s
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Tegmark: Clusters, Clumps, and the SDSS Jul/Aug
2006 The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
(SDSS) bills itself on its website as the
"most ambitious astronomical survey ever undertaken,"...
STAR’s
Tim Hallman
Hunts for Quark-Gluon Plasma May/Jun
2006
If physicists had a
choice, they’d probably all live at or near the beginning of the
universe. String theorists and their ilk would live closest to
the...
Harvard’s
Marc A. Pfeffer On Blockbuster Cardio Trials Mar/Apr
2006
Clinical
trials in medical research can often follow a familiar pattern. A
potential new treatment is tested...
HHMI’s
Joan Massagué on TGF-b and Metastasis Jan/Feb
2006 Of all the molecules that control the growth and proliferation of
cells, the family known as transforming growth...
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