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Wired Thomas Goetz |
Why Early Detection Is the Best Way to Beat Cancer By getting regular blood tests, doctors may be able to diagnose cancer early, giving the patient a 90 percent chance of survival.  |
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Dyslexia, Learning, And The Brain By Roderick I. Nicolson And Angela J. Fawcett Leading researchers take a theoretical approach to a complex question: What is dyslexia?  |
Popular Mechanics January 2009 Michael Milstein |
World's Hardiest Organisms to Face 3 Years in Space When a Russian spacecraft sets off late this year to scrape samples of the Martian moon Phobos, at least 10 of Earth's toughest life-forms will be going along for the ride.  |
Popular Mechanics December 16, 2008 Matthew Hutson |
5 Projects Ask if Life on Earth Began as Alien Life in Space For years, scientists have considered the possibility of exogenesis, the idea that life arrived on Earth from another planet, and not just the building blocks of life, but organisms that were ready to rock and roll when they arrived.  |
Scientific American January 2009 Charles Q. Choi |
Do White Blood Cells Make Cancer Deadly? The ability to spread underlies the killing power of cancer. The process occurs, John Pawelek thinks, when tumor cells fuse with white blood cells -- an idea that, if right, could yield new therapies  |
Scientific American January 2009 Melinda Wenner |
Does Herpes Cause a Form of Sen. Edward Kennedy s Brain Cancer? New evidence points to a link between the herpesvirus and the deadly cancer glioblastoma  |
Scientific American December 2008 John Rennie |
Dynamic Darwinism: Evolution Theory Thrives Today The naturalist would approve of how evolutionary science continues to improve  |
Chemistry World December 11, 2008 Hayley Birch |
Protein threading paves the way for nanomachines A team of Dutch and Italian researchers has discovered how proteins are threaded through pores in cell membranes.  |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2008 Sarah Houlton |
Animal Humanity The new EU directive looks to reduce, refine, and eventually replace animal testing.  |
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 Monica Heger |
Cheap Microfluidic Device Made From Paper and Tape Harvard scientists hope to reduce the cost of medical tests  |
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