Features: Biology & Physics
Crowdsourcing Therapies for Rare Cancers
Biomedical science has been quick to emulate the open-source model, derived from software development, at least in some spheres.
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Advances in Carbon-Hydrogen Chemistry
The aim this century is to "green" the chemical, agrochemical, and pharmaceutical industries by finding processes that produce high yields of products with little or no waste.
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Transits Transform the Quest for Earth-Like Planets
Astronomers engaged in the search for planets orbiting stars in the Milky Way galaxy are ecstatic about the results now pouring in from the NASA Kepler mission.
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New Treatment for At-Risk Patients with Aortic Stenosis
The first trans-catheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) was performed 10 years ago in a 57-year-old man for whom the experimental procedure was a "last resort."
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