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Jack Szostak, Carol Greider and Elizabeth Blackburn win the Nobel Prize in medicine for their work with telomeres.
Synthetic biologists go far beyond genetic engineers, creating cellular computers, microbial drug factories and cancer-hunting bacteria.
Once considered mere substitutes for embryonic cells, re-engineered adult cells are making breakthroughs of their own.
C. elegans, a 959-celled Nobel magnet, helped explain cell suicide and launch genomics, and could now revolutionize drug development.
Is watching the same as doing? Both depend on a newly discovered neuron, which helps explain how humans connect.
Forty-three years after his death, a renowned physicist has an unexpected hand in extending his grandson’s life.
Like shoelaces’ tips, telomeres do damage control, preserving DNA and slowing aging. What happens if we extend their expiration date?
Scientists have had only a glimmer of an idea how microbes affect our bodies; a $115 million National Institutes of Health project aims to find out.
Eric Chivian, founder of the Center for Health and the Global Environment, worries that some medical mysteries may remain forever unsolved as a result of global climate change.
Injected RNA, which can turn off genes and halt production of harmful proteins, could profoundly affect the way we treat disease.
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