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Meeting Brief
- Biodiversity and New Drugs, by Oscar Gutierrez-M
- American Society for Cell Biology: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Anne Jacobson and Elizabeth Tracey
- American Society for Cell Biology: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Anne Jacobson and Emma Patten-Hitt
- Society for Neuroscience: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Apoorva Mandavilli and Roberta Friedman
- Society for Neuroscience: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Apoorva Mandavilli and Roberta Friedman
- American Society of Human Genetics: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Rabiya S. Tuma and Trina Wood
- American Society of Human Genetics: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Tabitha M. Powledge and Trina Wood
- International Conference on Molecular Structural Biology: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Laura Spinney and Melissa Mertl
- International Conference on Molecular Structural Biology: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Laura Spinney and Melissa Mertl
- International Conference on Molecular Structural Biology: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Laura Spinney and Melissa Mertl
- The Ecological Society of America: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Jay Withgott and Trina Wood
- International Congress of Immunology: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Julie Clayton and Melissa Mertl
- World Federation of Neurology: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Laura Spinney and Melissa Mertl
- World Federation of Neurology: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Julie Clayton and Laura Spinney
- World Federation of Neurology: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Melissa Mertl and Laura Spinney
- American Society for Microbiology: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Dan Ferber and Emma Patten-Hitt
- American Society for Microbiology: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Rabiya S. Tuma and Emma Patten-Hitt
- Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Laura Spinney and Julie Clayton
- Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Laura Spinney and Julie Clayton
- American Association for Cancer Research: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Tabitha M. Powledge and Rabiya S. Tuma
- American Association for Cancer Research: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Tabitha M. Powledge and Rabiya S. Tuma
- Biophysical Society: BioMedNet Conference Reporter , by Rabiya S. Tuma and Mari N. Jensen
- Biophysical Society: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Anne Jacobson and Mari N. Jensen
- American Society for Microbiology and the Institute for Genomic Research: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Karin Jegalian and Melissa Mertl
- American Society for Microbiology and the Institute for Genomic Research: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Karin Jegalian and Melissa Mertl
- The American Society for Cell Biology: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Mari N. Jensen and Dan Ferber
- The American Society for Cell Biology: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Mari N. Jensen and Dan Ferber
- Society for Neuroscience: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Laura Spinney and Dan Ferber
- Society for Neuroscience: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Laura Spinney and Julie Clayton
- Society for Neuroscience: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Mari N. Jensen and Dan Ferber
- The American Society of Human Genetics: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Rabiya S. Tuma and Laura Spinney
- The American Society of Human Genetics: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Dan Ferber and Pete Moore
- European Life Scientist Organization: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Laura Spinney and Pete Moore
- Extracting the Environment's Effects: The Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, by Mari N. Jensen
- Genetics, Bioethics, and Religion, by Robert W. Wallace
- From Arabidopsis to Zebra Fish: New Techniques for Developmental Biology, by Amy Fluet
- Genomics, Organ Engineering, Space Biology, and Forensic Genetics: Whitehead Institute Press Seminar 2000, by Charlie Schick
- American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: Conference Reporter highlights, by Mari N. Jensen and Mike May
- American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: Conference Reporter highlights, by Laura Spinney,Dan Ferber, and Mari N. Jensen
- American Society for Microbiology: Conference Reporter highlights, by Laura Spinney, Pete Moore, and Dan Ferber
- Bio2000 Highlights: Hopes for Gene Therapy, by Christopher G. Edwards
- Evolution Meets Conservation at the Brink of the Homogocene, by Jay Withgott
- American Association for Cancer Research: BioMednews Reports, by Dan Ferber and Pete Moore
- Keystone Millennium Conference: BioMednews Reports, by Marina Chicurel, Andy Coghlan, and Philip Cohen
- Blossoming Bioinformatics: The Princeton Bioinformatics Symposium, by Billy Goodman
- Lessons from the Aging Brain: 33rd Annual Winter Conference on Brain Research, by Sibylle Hechtel
- INABIS 2000: Sixth Internet World Congress on Biomedical Sciences, by Ellen M. Quardokus
- Gatekeepers, Cargo Carriers, and Other Cellular Machines: American Society for Cell Biology, by Beth Schachter
- Malaria: Counting Chromosomes and Beans, by Jeffrey L. Fox
- Drug Discovery: A Team Sport, by Beth Schachter
- Bones in Motion: American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, by Jeanne Erdmann
- Molecular Aspects of Metastasis: American Association for Cancer Research, by H. Steven Wiley
- A Family Gathering: The First International Fission Yeast Meeting, by Karen May
- Society for Neuroscience, by Dan Ferber, Pete Moore, and Julie Clayton
- Mars or Bust, by Sibylle Hechtel
- Worming through the Genome, by Paul Muhlrad
- New Role$ for Mice in Clinical Trials: Biotechnology Symposium and Trial Exposition, by David Appell
- Our Aging Genes: FASEB Summer Research Conference: Molecular Gerontology, by Sibylle Hechtel
- Teaching and Timing Evolution, by Jay Withgott
- IBRO 99: The Fifth World Congress of Neuroscience, by Laura Spinney
- BIO 99': Biotechnology Industry Organization conference, by Jim Kling
- American Society of Gene Therapy: BioMednews Reports, by Karen Hopkin, Pete Moore, and Laura Spinney
- ASM BioMednews Reports, by Karen Hopkin, Dan Ferber, and Laura Spinney
- Mendel Stayed Home: The Genomic Imprinting Symposium:, by Andrew P. Feinberg
- Exxon Valdez: Symposium Highlights Oil Spill Research, by Jody Seitz
- FASEB, by Dan Ferber, Karen Hopkin, and Laura Spinney
- AACR BioMednews Reports, by Catherine Brooksbank, Clare Thompson, and Laura Spinney
- Bioethics in the New Millennium, by Amy Hodson Thompson
- Ancient Autopsy: Pericles and the Plague, by Nancy Volkers
- The Internet as Model Organism, by Lois Wingerson
- Jumping into the Array Fray: The NIH Microarray User Group Mini-Symposium, by Emily Klotz
- Know Thy Cell, by John Murray
- Healing the Helix: The Future of Genomic Medicine, by Erin T. Strovel and Miriam G. Blitzer
- Overhauling the Secretory Pathway, by Tommy Nilsson
- Head Case, by Karen Hopkin
- Turn Me On, Turn Me Off, by Danielle Kerkovich
- Science? Fiction? How About Both?, by Bill Thomasson
- Culturing New Connections: Microbial Discovery Workshops, by William H. Coleman and
Dennis Opheim
- Tobacco Road: Avenues of Addiction, by Tabitha M. Powledge
- Do Genomes Enhance Their Own Evolution?, by Lynn Caporale
- Metals and Metabolism: Do Not Disturb, by Randall Willis
- Can Biotech Make the Bullet Magic?, by Anjani Shah
- Peeling The Onion, by William Wells
- Fountain of Youth? Hormonal and Molecular Interventions in Aging, by Randolph Fillmore
- Health Care Information Experts Imagine the Future, by Randolph Fillmore
- Monkey Ties: What Primates Tell Us About Families, by Brian Vastag
- When RNA Ruled Another Lost World?, by Karen Hopkin
- Evolution: Lost Worlds, by Laura F. Landweber and Laura A. Katz
- "Traffic Jams" and Other Neuronal Malfunctions, by William Wallace
- State of the World Forum Report, by Richard Brodie
- What's New in Biofactories: Third Annual Topics in Gene Expression Systems Conference, by M. Walid Qoronfleh
- Brains and Hurricanes: Highlights of the 1997 Society for Neuroscience Meeting, by Joseph Erhardt
- The Many Actions of Vitamin A: Reviewing the Retinoids '97 Meeting, by Alan Packer
- Waking Up to Diapause: Second International Conference on Diapause in the Crustacea, by J. Clive Trotman
- Tumor Angiogenesis in Splendid Isolation: Thirteenth International Symposium on Cellular Endocrinology, by J. Denry Sato
- Early Repair Job in Utero Stem Cell Transplantation and Gene Therapy, by Rhodri Jones
- Making Ribosomes: Fourth International Symposium on Ribosome Synthesis and Nucleolar Function, by Craig S. Pikaard
- Neutrons or "No Nukes": The Future of Brookhaven National Laboratory's High Flux Beam Reactor, by Dan Ferber
- Advancing the Genetics of Obesity: Strategies and Methods, by David B. Allison and Moonseong Heo
- New Passion for Evo-Devo: Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, by Greg Gibson
- Let Them Eat Fat: Proliferation and Diseases of Peroxisomes, by Stefan Alexson
- No Hotel Reservations Needed: The First International Virtual Conference on Infectious Diseases in Animals, by Marcus E. Kehrli, Jr., Thaddeus B. Stanton, Timothy E. Ingram, and Kerry K. Kartchner
- Many Battles Remain in the War on Cancer, by Harry Brodie
- Rebuilding Our Infrastructure: Emerging Therapies for Osteoporosis, by Robert J. Majeska
- Those That Protect Us: Mucosal Immunity, by Lloyd Mayer
- The Biology of Sepsis, Stress, and Shock, by Haibo Zhang
- Tackling the Mysteries of Breast Cancer, by Mary S. Wolff
- Ifgene and "The Future of DNA": A Conference on Ethical Issues of DNA Technology, by David J. Heaf and Pat Cheney
- Cross-Talk Among AIDS Researchers: The Reproductive Tract and HIV Transmission, by Karen P. Beckerman, M.D.
- New Tiny Tools Shown: IBC Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology, by Jim Lewis
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Opinion
- Who Said that Size Is All that Matters?, by Tomas Roslin
- Controlling Epidemic Sleeping Sickness, by H. Roy Rickman
- When a Clone Is Not a Clone, by H. Bert Vogelstein
- Women in Biotech: A Personal Perspective, by H. Stewart Parker
- Biotechnology in the Battlefield, by Michael R. Ladisch and Robert Love
- Return from the Brink of Death, by Kirsten C. Sadler
- Out on a Limb, or a New Branch of Signalling Theory?, by Nick Atkinson
- The Future of Plant Science in Zimbabwe, by Idah Sithole-Niang
- What Prize Glory?: The Ig Nobels, by Marc Abrahams
- Putting Things in Context, by Bill Phillips
- Deadly Revenge: Uptake of Oncogenes from Apoptotic Bodies, by Martin Holcik
- Do Tierran Programs Dream of Darwinian Dynamics?, by N.A. Johnson
- Quoth the Raven . . ., by Debra Titone
- Ecology's Oldest Pattern?, by Bradford A. Hawkins
- Drug Addiction: A Brain Disease, by Alan I. Leshner
- Do Plants Have More Genes than Humans?, by Joachim Messing
- Bringing Electron Microscopy Back into Focus for Cell Biology, by Gareth Griffiths
- Birds and Dinosaurs, by Frietson Galis and Alan Feduccia
- Is Paradoxical Pharmacology a Strategy Worth Pursuing?, by Richard A. Bond
- The Biotechnology Industry's Frankensteinian Creation, by Henry I. Miller
- More Than Mammography: Breast-Cancer Detection, by M. Carolina Hinestrosa
- Fund Feelings for Children, by Jack P. Shonkoff
- Promise Needs Proof: New Tobacco Products, by Stuart Bondurant
- Musculoskeletal Disorders and the Workplace, by Jeremiah A. Barondess
- Governing Climate Research, by Charles F. Kennel
- Something Rotten at the Core of Science?, by David F. Horrobin
- Resolutions for a More Livable Planet, by Thomas E. Graedel
- Toying with Early Learning, by Ross Thompson
- Sound Regulations Needed for Protecting Marine Mammals, by Kenneth Brink
- Stating the Obvious in the Fight Against AIDS, by Harvey V. Fineberg and James Trussell
- Keeping Aging Minds Sharp, by Laura L. Carstensen
- Putting Ph.D.s at the Head of the Class, by N. Ronald Morris
- We Can Do Something about Malaria Today, by Burton Singer
- Would That You Won an Ig?: What, Where, When, Why, Why, Why?, by Marc Abrahams
- Using Science to Help Prevent Birth Defects, by Elaine M. Faustman and John C. Gerhart
- A New Strategy for Fighting Biological Terrorism, by Donald A. Henderson
- Science Must Help Set the Global Agenda, by Bruce Alberts
- Tuberculosis: The Disease That Cannot Be Neglected, by Morton N. Swartz
- Click Here for Better Health Care, by Edward H. Shortliffe and Valerie Florance
- Going for Gold: Whatever the Cost, by Scott Ewan
- Bringing Coastal "Dead Zones" Back to Life, by Robert Howarth
- Microbial Pathogenesis: New Paths into a New Millennium, by Philippe J. Sansonetti
- The American Society for Microbiology in the New Millennium, by Julian E. Davies
- God After Darwin: Beyond Materialism and "Intelligent Design", by John F. Haught
- Critical Biodiversity, by J. H. Kaufman and O. R. Melroy
- Are Computers Evolving in Biology?, by H. Steven Wiley
- Science and Secrecy, by Rodney W. Nichols
- Linearization Plots: Time for Progress in Regression, by Martin L. Lobemeier
- The Truth about Global Warming, by John M. Wallace and John R. Christy
- On Viral Epidemics, Zoonoses, and Memory, by Simon Wain-Hobson and Andreas Meyerhans
- Swimming Against the Mainstream: Accenting the Positive in Human Nature, by Albert Bandura
- Wetland Woes: Amphibian Declines and Malformations, by Michael J. Lannoo
- Life as Communication, by Arnold De Loof
- Amazon Burning, by William F. Laurance and Philip M. Fearnside
- Science for Diplomacy, by Robert A. Frosch
- Public Health Genetics, by Alison Stewart
- Research and Perestroika, by Sergey Rumyantsev
- What Is This Ig?, by Marc Abrahams
- Desiccating Dreams: Is Making the Desert Bloom Sustainable?, by Uriel Safriel
- Out of Print, by Sydney Brenner
- When Fuzzy Thinking Is a Good Thing, by Ulrike Walter
- Evolving the Ties that Bind, by David A. Perry
- How Good Is Good Enough?, by Douglas K. Owens
- The Global View of Evolution, by Richard L. Coren
- What is Lamarck's Signature?, by Edward J. Steele and Robert V. Blanden
- Neoplasia, by Brian Ross
- Defend Only the Defenseless: Genetic Variation and Vaccination, by Sergey N. Rumyantsev
- Reprieve for a Killer: Saving Smallpox, by Joel N. Shurkin
- The Future of Evolutionary Biology, by David L. Stern
- On Controversy: An Interview with George Lundberg, by Lois Wingerson
- The Crack Babies that Weren't: What Statistics Mean, and Don't Mean, by Neala S. Schwartzberg
- A Student's Suicide: Questions and Lessons, by John F. Alderete
- Evaluating Science: Performance Assessment in Research, by Amy Muhlberg
- Nanotechnology and the Future, by Katherine Austin
- Biology's Role in Developing Nanotechnology, by Nadrian Seeman
- The Light at the End of the Microtubule, by Ralph Merkle
- Do Nanoists Dream of Very Tiny Sheep?, by Kevin Ausman.
- Field of Genes: Issues and Non-Issues in High-Tech Farming, by Jeremy Cherfas
- Up for Adoption: Pharmacogenetics and the Orphan Drug Law, by Mignon Fogarty
- Bioinformatics: Scientific Discipline or Support Field?, by Emmanouil Skoufos
- Opening Our Minds: The Decade of the Brain, by Gavin Swanson
- Undergraduate Science Undervalued, by Carol Berkower
- Opportunity, not Exploitation: Valuing the Icelandic Genome, by Kari Stefansson
- Outsourcing Trials for Fun and Profit, by Ismail Shalaby
- A Journal Falls Silent, Muffling History, by Alan I. Packer
- Loss of Mission: The NIMH's Multiple Personality, by E. Fuller Torrey
- On Uncertainty and the Death of Cod, by Stephen J. Hall
- Keeping It in the Family, by Robert Insall
- Private Sector, Public Science, by Scott Stern
- The Buffalo that Would Be a Tiger, by K. VijayRaghavan
- Who Should Name The Tree of Life?, by David Malakoff
- The Experimental Experience, by Mitsuhiro Yanagida
- You Can't Win the Indy 500 in a Yugo, by Keith Cheng
- Go Green or See Red, by David Nicholson
- DNA as Lego, by Andrew Ellington
- UnScientific American: Animal Rights or Wrongs, by Jack H. Botting and Adrian R. Morrison
- FUNDamental Conflicts of Interest, by Mildred K. Cho
- White Bread Current Opinions, by Julie Solomon
- The Organs of Species, by Randall Willis
- Talking Around Immunology, by Nicholas R. Sinclair
- Fish Wars, by Richard Brodie
- Weighing the Case against Fen-Phen, by Lawrence J. Cheskin and David B. Allison
- Astrobiology: Formulating the Big Picture, by Keith Cowing
- To Test or Not to Test? Genetic Counseling Is the Key, by Jill Stopfer
- Overreaction: Lessons from Brookhaven, by Dan Ferber
- Technology Transfer Management: How to Make the Process Work?, by M. Walid Qoronfleh
- Body Weight and Mortality: A Lesson in Complexity, by David B. Allison and Daisy N. Siemon
- The Forecast for Genetic Fortune-Telling: Cloudy but Gradually Clearing, by M. Stephen Meyn
- Funding for Cancer Research Faces an Uncertain Future, by Harry Brodie
- The Ways of Nature are Discrete and Just, by Robert Pollack
- How the Rot Spreads, by William J. Bennetta
- The Grand Profession and the Petty Professionals: Reflections on the Golden Era of Microbiology, by Steven P. Lehrer
- So Many Journals, So Few Enshrined, by Jon Turney
- Physician-Assisted Suicide
Pro: Autonomy Meets Non-maleficence, by Jon F. Merz
Con: A Better Prescription, by Felicia G. Cohn
- Money Isn't Everything, by Yoji Arata
- Reflections on Grant Peer Review: The Squeaky Wheel and Other Concerns, by Harry Brodie
- Mammalian Cloning: The Science Of The Lambs, by Alan P. Wolffe
- The Non-Ethics of Cloning, by John Maddox
- Introns 'R' Us: Why the Great Debate Deadlocked, by Andrew D. Ellington
- Is Pasteurs Day Past? by Andrew Murray
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Press Box
- Pitching Pharma: Biotechnology and the Media, by Clive Cookson
- Food Court: The Press and GM Foods, by Adam Ezra Segal-Isaacson
- Gene Therapy Trials: Pressing for Answers, by Vicki Brower
- How the Internet Is Changing Science Journalism, by David Whitehouse
- Stemming the Tide of Nonsense, by Beryl Lieff Benderly
- Days of Our Labs, by Mari N. Jensen
- Why Can't People Just Be Sick?, by Beryl Lieff Benderly
- Grassroots or Astroturf?, by Robert W. Wallace
- Mad Cows and Loopy Lambs, by Georgina Ferry
- A Hot Potato, by Bernard Dixon
- Who's Supposed to Be Asking the Questions Here?, by Dean A. Haycock
- Spin Is Not a Dirty Word, by Jennifer Boeth Donovan
- Journals as Press Agents, by Mark Hagland
- The Unusual Birth of "Science", by Jim Dawson
- Reporter, Can You Paradigm? Metaphors for Mental Illness, by Randolph Fillmore
- Tracking the Elusive Internship: Frustrated in Philly, by Brian Vastag
- Getting the Scoop at Scientific Meetings, by John Travis
- Checking Up on Alternative Medicine, by Brian Vastag
- URLs for PIOs, by Jennifer Boeth Donovan
- Rethinking "Race", by Randolph Fillmore
- Pause for Reflection, by Bernard Dixon
- Dr. Reporter?, by Dean A. Haycock
- Celluloid Genetics, by Jim Kling
- Push, Push, by Herb Brody
- Online Hangouts for Science Writers, by Dean A. Haycock
- Driven to Abstraction, by Phillip F. Schewe
- Reach Out and Teach Someone, by Lori Skopp
- Can You Promote Science Without Losing Respect?, by Peter Gwynne
- Lively Links: Ramping Journals onto the Highway, by Robert Ubell
- Who Killed the Science Section?, by Dean A. Haycock
- Scientists and the News Media: Part III: How to Work With Institutional Public Relations People, by Robert Finn
- Curse the Darkness or Post a Web Site, by Herb Brody
- Scientists and the News Media: Part II: How to Work With Reporters, by Robert Finn
- Smoking Causes Cancer!, by Richard F. Harris
- Scientists and the News Media: Part I: Why It's Good to Talk, by Robert Finn
- Scientific Publishing on the World Wide Web: The BioMedNet and HMS Beagle Models, by Sarah Greene and Matthew Cockerill
- Missing Bodies: Scientists Access Data - They Don't Read Bodies of Text, by Robert Ubell
- Will The Internet Kill the Embargo?, by Robert Finn
- Puns and the B-Word: Reporting the Cloning Event, by Lois Wingerson
- Scholarly Communities on the Web, by Richard Charkin
- The Scientist, the Journalist, the Journal, and the Embargo, by Robert Finn
- Desktop Libraries, by Robert Ubell
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Profile
- Berlin-Based Bioethics: Germany's National Ethics Council, by Sanyin Siang>
- Sticky Business: Anti-Infectives Prevent Bacteria from Latching On, by Pamela Weintraub>
- Pharmaceutical Extremophiles: Arctos, by Vicki Brower>
- Autoimmunity in a New Vein?: Pathobiotek, by Pamela Weintraub>
- Harnessing the Body's Ability to Heal: Curis, by Vicki Brower>
- From Genes to Proteins: The FLEXgene Consortium, by Jane Salodof MacNeil>
- Expertise in Amyloid Aids Alzheimer's Research: Neurochem, by Vicki Brower>
- A Tree Grows in Manhattan, by Beth Schachter>
- Is Autism's Answer in the Gut?: Repligen Corporation, by Jane Salodof MacNeil>
- Dauphin Island: Center of a Marine Universe, by Rabiya S. Tuma>
- Science with a Mission, Inc.: Diagnostics for the Third World, by Kirstie Saltsman>
- In Pursuit of Clarity: The Tahoe Research Group, by Rabiya S. Tuma>
- Darwin's Down House, by Robert W. Wallace>
- Rainforest Research: The South American Office for Anticancer Drug Development, by Rabiya S. Tuma>
- Growing Cells in 3-D: Breaking the Flat Barrier with Microgravity, by Pamela Weintraub>
- In the Garden: The Eden Project, by Scott G. Ewan>
- Learning from Songbirds: Growing New Hair Cells May Overcome Deafness, by Roberta Friedman>
- The Case of the Dinucleotides that Spell Danger, by Beth Schachter>
- Chemistry of Cooking, by Rabiya S. Tuma>
- Saving Seeds, Saving Cultures, by Jay Withgott>
- Race and the Genome: The Howard University Human Genome Center, by Maia Szalavitz>
- Progress in Parkinson's: Diacrin and Fetal Pig Neurons, by Pamela Weintraub>
- Therapeutic Measures: IHGT and Clinical Trials, by Karin Jegalian>
- Inhospitable Hosts: Developing Antiviral Drugs, by Rabiya S. Tuma>
- Getting Gene Therapy Under Control: ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc., by William A. Wells>
- Diversa Corporation and Directed Molecular Evolution, by Robert W. Wallace>
- A Beagle Sniffs for Life on Mars, by Jay Withgott>
- Smarter Viruses: Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., by William A. Wells>
- Of Aggressive Mice and Dutchmen: USC's Keck Neurogenetic Institute, by Roberta Friedman>
- Industrial-Strength Profiling Rosetta Inpharmatics, Inc., by William A. Wells>
- Corporations Turning Over a New "Green" Leaf?, by Daniel Edelstein>
- Life after Worms: Lynx Therapeutics, Inc., by William A. Wells>
- Heavenly Bodies, by Jeanne Erdmann>
- Eek, a XenoMouse: Abgenix, Inc., by William A. Wells>
- Finding the Value in Scientific Pictures Image Informatics and Scimagix, Inc., by Deborah J. Ausman>
- Sniffing for Success: Senomyx, Inc., by William A. Wells>
- It's Not Just DNA Anymore: Prion Proteins and Hereditary Information, by Rabiya S. Tuma>
- Send in the Gas: NicOx S.A., by William A. Wells>
- Vaccine Pharming: Charles Arntzen and the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, by Sara Latta>
- TIGR's Minimal Genome Project: How Many Genes Are Necessary to Sustain Life?, by Vicki Brower>
- Painting a Brighter Future for Dogs and Humans, by Sharon Kingman>
- Cancer Vaccines Made to Order: Antigenics L.L.C., by William A. Wells>
- Onchocerciasis: Pharmaceutical Companies Give It Away, by Dean A. Haycock>
- Packing It In: Chromos Molecular Systems Inc. and Athersys, Inc., by William A. Wells>
- Protein Structure by Numbers, by Georgina Ferry>
- Virtual Cures: Entelos, Inc., by William A. Wells>
- The "Yellow Pages" of Life, Online, by Daniel Edelstein>
- Getting Rid of Radicals: MetaPhore Pharmaceuticals, Inc., by William A. Wells>
- Ethical Culture: Millennium Pharmaceuticals, by Vicki Brower>
- Rebuilding the Spine: Acorda Therapeutics, Inc., by William A. Wells>
- Bug Warfare: IntraBiotics Pharmaceuticals, Inc., by William A. Wells>
- Biotech 101: CarboMed, by Roberta Friedman>
- Bind Every Sequence: Sangamo BioSciences, Inc., by William A. Wells>
- Stalking the Wild Isotope, by Jay Withgott>
- In Search of the Proteome: Oxford GlycoSciences plc, by William A. Wells>
- Learning to Live with the Desert, by Corliss Karasov>
- Cell Biology Goes Commercial: Cytokinetics, Inc., by William A. Wells>
- Trust Me, It Will Work: Small Molecule Therapeutics, Inc., by William A. Wells>
- Chiral Genetics: Chiroscience Group, plc, by William A. Wells>
- Spotfire Turns Up the Heat on Discovery Data, by Deborah J. Ausman>
- Breeding the Bottom Line: Maxygen, by Steven Dickman>
- Shutting Down Cancer: Wiley Lab, by Christie Aschwanden>
- Transforming Transplants: Geron and Roslin Bio-Med Merge, by Vicki Brower>
- The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, by Jim Dawson>
- Delicious Vaccines: Axis Genetics, plc, by William A. Wells>
- Bench Bots: Inside the Laboratory Robotics Interest Group, by Deborah J. Ausman>
- Going In for the Kill: Idun Pharmaceuticals, Inc., by William Wells>
- How Does Your Garden Stow? The Millennium Seed Bank, by Jeremy Cherfas >
- Amgen Redux: ICOS Corporation, by William A. Wells>
- A Beginning, of Sorts, for Antisense: Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., by William A. Wells>
- Joe Howard, Motor Man, by Katherine Austin>
- Castle in the Air?, by Randolph Fillmore>
- Chemistry on a Pinhead: Illumina, Inc., by William Wells>
- Can-Do Cantor, by Joel N. Shurkin>
- Could Mitochondria Be the Key?, by William A. Wells>
- BioFuture: New Hope for Young German Biologists, by Ludger Wess>
- The Snail Companies: Neurex Corporation & Cognetix Inc., by William A. Wells>
- Gene Whiz: Celera Genomics, by Karen Hopkin>
- Coming Full Circle: Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, by William Wells>
- A Hothouse for Bioscience: The Manchester Biotech Incubator, by Georgina Ferry>
- A Complete Vision: Imaging Research, Inc., by William Wells>
- Man versus Mosquito: Robert Novak and the INHS Medical Entomology Laboratory, by Dan Ferber>
- Total Recall: Helicon Therapeutics, Inc., by William Wells>
- Engineers and Eggheads: Molecular Sciences Institute, by Karen Hopkin>
- High-Throughput Worms: NemaPharm, Inc., by William Wells>
- Envisioning Science: Imaging with Felice Frankel, by Marina Chicurel and Sally Kuzma>
- Whose DNA Is It, Anyway?, by Brian Vastag>
- The Next Chip-Based Revolution: Caliper Technologies Corp., by William Wells>
- Starving Cancer Into Submission, by William Wells>
- Life Sciences Perspective at NSF, by Barbara Hyde>
- Rainforest Remedies, by William Wells>
- The MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, by Georgina Ferry>
- Lead Compound Phone Home: IRORI, by William Wells>
- Mary Lyons: Quiet Battler, by Gail Vines>
- Digging in the Dirt: TerraGen Diversity Inc. and ChromaXome Corp., by William Wells >
- Phage on Display: Dyax Corp., by William Wells>
- Tim Mitchison: Dynamic Productivity, by William Wells>
- Of Mice and Men: Geron Corporation, by William Wells>
- Ordering the Genome: The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, by Georgina Ferry>
- Cancer Gets the Red Light: Pharmacyclics, Inc., by William Wells>
- Climb Every Mountain: Lee Hood's New Quest in Biotechnology Innovations, by Jim Kling>
- What the Hedgehog Knows: Ontogeny, Inc., by William Wells>
- Subverting the Cell Cycle: Mitotix, Inc., by William Wells>
- Between What We Know and What We Do: The Cochrane Collaboration, by Georgina Ferry >
- Shine a Light: Aurora Biosciences Corporation, by William Wells>
- Mapping Out Fat Profits: Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., by William Wells>
- Evaluated Medline: Fourth Generation Bibliographic Searching, by Matthew Cockerill>
- Seeking Extremophiles: Recombinant Biocatalysis, Inc., by William Wells>
- Basic Science, Clinical Oncology Converge at "The Hutch": The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, by Jim Kling>
- Virtual Toxicology: Virtual Toxicology, by William Wells>
- Tom Pollard: Upwardly Motile, by Matthijs J. Smith >
- Piecing Together Drugs: Abbott Laboratories, by William Wells>
- Dancing on the HighWire: HighWire Press, Stanford University Libraries, by William Tucker>
- One-Step Genome Analysis: Synteni, Inc., by William Wells>
- Cooperative Science: The Center for Genomic Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, by Dean A. Haycock>
- Combinatorial Chemistry Makes Good: Affymax, by William Wells
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Interview
- Lyn Beazley, interviewed by Bea Perks
- Edward O. Wilson, interviewed by Paul D. Thacker
- James Gimzewski, interviewed by Rebecca N. Lawrence
- Richard A. Mathies, interviewed by Suzanne Berry
- Huda Akil, interviewed by Dan Ferber
- Ian Wilmut, interviewed by Suzanne Berry
- Randi Hagerman, interviewed by Trina Wood
- Charles Scriver, interviewed by Rabiya S. Tuma
- Andrej Sali, interviewed by Melissa Mertl
- Dino Moras, interviewed by Laura Spinney
- Ursula Egner, interviewed by Laura Spinney
- David Colquhoun, interviewed by David Bradley
- David Baltimore, interviewed by Melissa Mertl
- Bhimanagouda Patil, interviewed by David Bradley
- Mandavilli Gourie-Devi, interviewed by John Bonner
- Stanislas Dehaene, interviewed by Laura Spinney
- Tania Baker, interviewed by Rabiya S. Tuma
- Richard M. Losick, interviewed by Emma Patten-Hitt
- Shoshana Wodak, interviewed by Julie Clayton
- Roger Crouch, interviewed by Daniel Edelstein
- Maria Ermolaeva, interviewed by David Bradley
- Gary Siuzdak, interviewed by David Bradley
- Steven Chu, interviewed by Anne Jacobson
- Ormond MacDougald, interviewed by David Bradley
- Douglas H. Erwin, interviewed by Daniel Edelstein
- Egbert Giles Leigh, interviewed by Daniel Edelstein
- Nenad Ban, interviewed by David Bradley
- Gregor Mendel, "interviewed" by David Bradley
- Gianni Pezzoli, interviewed by David Bradley
- Bruce Spiegelman, interviewed by David Bradley
- Eugene Odum, interviewed by Daniel Edelstein
- Gary W. Barrett, interviewed by Daniel Edelstein
- Sir Ghillean Prance, interviewed by Daniel Edelstein
- Fernando Retuerto Prieto, interviewed by David Bradley
- Allan Jordan, interviewed by David Bradley
- Matteo di Tommaso, interviewed by David Bradley
- Gene E. Likens, interviewed by Daniel Edelstein
- Marvalee Wake, interviewed by Daniel Edelstein
- Johnny Huard, interviewed by David Bradley
- Gordon Orians, interviewed by Daniel Edelstein
- Rod Dillon, interviewed by David Bradley
- Philip Cohen, interviewed by David Bradley
- Timothy C. Thompson, interviewed by David Bradley
- Julian Edmund Davies, interviewed by David Bradley
- George Daniel Demetri, interviewed by David Bradley
- Monica Hughes, interviewed by David Bradley
- Richard M. Walmsley, interviewed by David Bradley
- Eric Kool, interviewed by David Bradley
- R.E.W. (Bob) Hancock, interviewed by David Bradley
- Ron Stenkamp, interviewed by David Bradley
- Charles Darwin, "interviewed" by David Bradley
- Larry K. Keefer, interviewed by David Bradley
- Dlawer Ala'aldeen, interviewed by David Bradley
- Susan Greenfield, interviewed by David Bradley
- Rupert Sheldrake, interviewed by David Bradley
- Fiona S.L. Brinkman, interviewed by David Bradley
- Richard Moss, interviewed by David Bradley
- Steve Jones, interviewed by David Bradley
Debate
- Genetically Modified Foods, moderated by Joel I. Cohen
- Persistent Vegetative State, moderated by Nicholas D. Schiff
- Journals Online: PubMed Central and Beyond, moderated by Lois Wingerson
- Life: What Exactly Is It?, originally published on the Science Channel
- Conciousness, originally published on the Science Channel
- Alternative Medicine, moderated by Wallace Sampson
- The Future of Medical Publishing, originally published on the Science Channel
- Gene Therapy, moderated by Inder Verma
- Cannibalism, originally published on the Science Channel
- Science Funding, moderated by Donna Crane
- Medical Use of Marijuana, moderated by Richard Musty
- Career Changes in Science, moderated by Amy Fluet
- Model Systems, moderated by Jessica Bolker
- Neurodegenerative Diseases, moderated by Donald Price
- Shedding Light on Melatonin, moderated by Larry Morin
- The Origin of Life, moderated by Michael Meyer
- Optimum Mutation Rates in Evolution and Disease, moderated by Bryn Bridges
- Models of Immunologic Tolerance, moderated by Kenneth F. Schaffner
- Science and Ethics of Mammalian Cloning, moderated by Jon W. Gordon
- Making Sense of Antisense, moderated by C.A. Stein
- Academic Tenure: Is It Necessary?, moderated by William Tucker
- Do Orphan Receptors Have Ligands?, moderated by Mitch Lazar
- The Origin and Evolution of Introns, moderated by Russ Doolittle
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Book Review
- Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War,
by Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, and William J. Broad; reviewed by Dean A. Haycock
- Man, Beast and Zombie: What Science Can and Cannot Tell about Human Nature,
by Kenan Malik; reviewed by Marcin Szwed
- Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical,
by Anthony Bourdain; reviewed by Dean A. Haycock
- Dinner at the New Gene Cafe: How Genetic Engineering Is Changing What We Eat, How We Live, and the Global Politics of Food,
by Bill Lambrecht; reviewed by Ed Voves
- The Ape and the Sushi Master,
by Frans de Waal; reviewed by Jim Dawson
- The Evolutionists: The Struggle for Darwin's Soul,
by Richard Morris; reviewed by Tim Tokaryk
- Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox,
by Jonathan B. Tucker; reviewed by Edward McSweegan
- It Ain't Necessarily So: How Media Make and Unmake the Scientific Picture of Reality,
by David Murray, Joel Schwartz, and S. Robert Lichter; reviewed by Dan Ferber
- Winning the Games Scientists Play: Strategies for Enhancing Your Career in Science,
by Carl J. Sindermann; reviewed by Charles Ouimet
- Annie's Box: Charles Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution,
by Randal Keynes; reviewed by Robert W. Wallace
- Evolution's Workshop God and Science on the Galápagos Islands,
by Edward J. Larson; reviewed by Blake Edgar
- Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles With Your Future,
by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber; reviewed by Sibylle Hechtel
- Blood Feud,
by Chris Wiggins; reviewed by Charles Ouimet
- The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples,
by Tim Flannery; reviewed by Ed Voves
- Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe,
by Andrew Spielman, Sc.D., and Michael D'Antonio; reviewed by Edward McSweegan
- Fly: The Unsung Hero in the History of Genetics,
by Martin Brookes; reviewed by Druin Burch
- Darwin's Radio,
by Greg Bear; reviewed by Jim Kling
- In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made,
by Norman F. Cantor; reviewed by Jonathan Beard
- The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging,
by S. Jay Olshansky and Bruce A. Carnes; reviewed by Ed Voves
- Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life,
by Stephen Jay Gould; reviewed by Druin Burch
- Tomorrow's Cures Today?: How to Reform the Health Research System,
by Donald R. Forsdyke; reviewed by Charles C. Ouimet
- Scientific Integrity: An Introductory Text with Cases,
by Francis L. Macrina; reviewed by Tim Atkinson
- Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation,
by James A. Secord; reviewed by Ed Voves
- Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth?,
by Jonathan Wells; reviewed by Jim Dawson
- Trilobite!: Eyewitness to Evolution,
by Richard Fortey; reviewed by Jonathan D. Beard
- Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories,
by Adam Phillips; reviewed by Tim Tokaryk
- Plague Time: How Stealth Infections Cause Cancers, Heart Disease, and Other Deadly Ailments,
by Paul W. Ewald; reviewed by Edward McSweegan
- Bold Science: Seven Scientists Who Are Changing Our World,
by Ted Anton; reviewed by Jim Dawson
- Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water,
by Philip Ball; reviewed by Ed Voves
- Who Wrote the Book of Life?: A History of the Genetic Code,
by Lily E. Kay; reviewed by Alan I. Packer
- Biotechnology Is Murder,
by Dirk Wyle; reviewed by Charles Ouimet
- Guide to Nontraditional Careers in Science,
by Karen Young Kreeger; reviewed by Peter S. Fiske
- Great Minds of Science,
Hosted by Paul Hoffman; reviewed by Dean A. Haycock
- The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel,
by Robin Marantz Henig; reviewed by Jim Dawson
- A Gathering of Wonders: Behind the Scenes at the American Museum of Natural History,
by Joseph Wallace; reviewed by Alan I. Packer
- The Triumph of Evolution and the Failure of Creationism,
by Niles Eldredge; reviewed by Gordy Slack
- Biography of a Germ,
by Arno Karlen; reviewed by Edward McSweegan
- The Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion,
by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer; reviewed by Clyde M. Burnham
- Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters,
by Jane Goodall, edited by Dale Peterson; reviewed by Jim Dawson
- The Art of Genes: How Organisms Make Themselves,
by Enrico Coen; reviewed by Alan I. Packer
- Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters,
by Matt Ridley; reviewed by Ed Voves
- The Scientist in the Crib: Minds, Brains, and How Children Learn,
by Alison Gopnik, Andrew Meltzoff, and Patricia Kuhl; reviewed by Sibylle Hechtel
- God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution,
by John F. Haught; reviewed by Alan I. Packer
- Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny,
by Robert Wright; reviewed by Clyde M. Burnham
- Millions of Monarchs, Bunches of Beetles: How Bugs Find Strength in Numbers,
by Gilbert Waldbauer; reviewed by Jonathan Beard
- Erasmus Darwin: A Life of Unequalled Achievement,
by Desmond King-Hele; reviewed by Tim Tokaryk
- Injured Brains of Medical Minds: Views from Within,
Edited by Narinder Kapur; reviewed by Morten Kringelbach
- Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius,
by Kurt Johnson and Steve Coates; reviewed by Jonathan D. Beard
- Sensory Exotica: A World Beyond Human Experience,
by Howard C. Hughes; reviewed by Ed Voves
- The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions,
by Freeman J. Dyson; reviewed by Jim Dawson
- The Mammal in the Mirror Understanding Our Place in the Natural World,
by David P. Barash and Ilona A. Barash; reviewed by Ed Voves
- Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind,
by V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee; reviewed by Morten Kringelbach
- The Missing Moment: How the Unconscious Shapes Modern Science,
by Robert Pollack; reviewed by Alan I. Packer
- The Politics of Pure Science,
by Daniel S. Greenberg; reviewed by Tim Tokaryk
- The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness,
by Antonio Damasio; reviewed by Ed Voves
- Joseph Leidy: The Last Man Who Knew Everything,
by Leonard Warren; reviewed by Tim Tokaryk
- How Scientists Explain Disease,
by Paul Thagard; reviewed by Ed Voves
- Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty,
by Nancy Etcoff; reviewed by Sibylle Hechtel
- The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior,
by Craig B. Stanford; reviewed by Jim Dawson
- Servants of Nature: A History of Scientific Institutions, Enterprises, and Sensibilities, by Lewis Pyenson and Susan Sheets-Pyenson; reviewed by Ed Voves
- Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species, by Jeffrey H. Schwartz; reviewed by Alan I. Packer
- Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior, by Jonathan Weiner; reviewed by Marla E. Cohen
- Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism, by Robert T. Pennock (reviewed by Tim Tokaryk)
- Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World by the Man Who Ran It, by Ken Alibek with Stephen Handelman (reviewed by Dean Haycock)
- Unnatural Selection: The Promise and the Power of Human Gene Research, by Lois Wingerson (reviewed by Jim Dawson)
- Advice for a Young Investigator, by Santiago Ramón y Cajal (translated by Neely and Larry W. Swanson), and Advice to a Young Scientist by Peter Medawar (reviewed by Alan I. Packer)
- Egg and Ego: An Almost True Story of Life in the Biology Lab, by J.M.W. Slack (reviewed by Alan I. Packer)
- The Complete Dinosaur, edited by James O. Farlow and Michael K. Brett-Surman (reviewed by Graeme D. Ruxton)
- Mr. Darwin's Shooter, by Roger MacDonald (reviewed by Tim Tokaryk)
- Rewinding Your Biological Clock: Motherhood Late in Life, by Richard J. Paulson and Judith Sachs (reviewed by Jeanine Barone)
- Time Machines: Scientific Explorations in Deep Time, by Peter D. Ward (reviewed by Tim Tokaryk)
- Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Dinosaur Extinction and the Transformation of Modern Geology, by James Lawrence Powell (reviewed by Blake Edgar)
- A History of Molecular Biology, by Michel Morange (reviewed by Jim Dawson)
- Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder, by Richard Dawkins (reviewed by Alan I. Packer)
- Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce, by Douglas Starr (reviewed by Ed Voves)
- Holiday Reading: Browsing for the Big Picture, by Dean Haycock
- The Trembling Mountain: A Personal Account of Kuru, Cannibals, and Mad Cow Disease, by Robert Klitzman (reviewed by Jeanine Barone)
- The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, by Judith Rich Harris (reviewed by John W. Murray)
- Toward a Democratic Science: Scientific Narration and Civic Communication, by Richard Harvey Brown (reviewed by Jim Dawson)
- At the Bench: A Laboratory Navigator, by Kathy Barker (reviewed by Alan I. Packer)
- Great Feuds in Science: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever, by Hal Hellman (reviewed by Tim Tokaryk)
- The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity, by Roy Porter (reviewed by Ed Voves)
- Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture, by Jon Turney (reviewed by Walter Gratzer)
- Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, by Edward O. Wilson (reviewed by Tim Tokaryk)
- Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness, by Ian Tattersall (reviewed by Blake Edgar)
- At the Water's Edge Macroevolution and the Transformation of Life, by Carl Zimmer (reviewed by Alan I. Packer)
- Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination, by Robert Jourdain (reviewed by Robert Finn)
- The Trouble With Testosterone And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament, by Robert M. Sapolsky (reviewed by Marla E. Cohen and Avrom J. Caplan)
- Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment, by Sandra Steingraber (reviewed by Dan Ferber)
- The Mistaken Extinction W. H. Freeman and Company, by Lowell Dingus and Timothy Rowe (reviewed by Tim Tokaryk)
- Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World, by Lee M. Silver (reviewed by Alan I. Packer)
- Buzz: The Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine, by Stephen Braun (reviewed by Matthew Cockerill)
- Deep-Ocean Journeys: Discovering Life at the Bottom of the Sea, by Cindy Lee Van Dover (reviewed by John D. Rummel)
- Why We Age: What Science Is Discovering about the Body's Journey through Life, by Steven N. Austad (reviewed by Keena D. Lykins)
- Galileo's Commandment: An Anthology of Great Science Writing, edited by Edmund Blair Bolles (reviewed by Alan I. Packer)
- Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolutionof People and Plagues, by Christopher Wills (reviewed by Jim Kling)
- Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, by Michael Shermer (reviewed by Walter Gratzer)
- Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men and Women, by Deborah Blum (reviewed by Keena D. Lykins)
- Why Aren't Black Holes Black: The Unanswered Questions at the Frontiers of Science, by Robert M. Hazen with Maxine Singer (reviewed by Dean A. Haycock)
- Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape, by Frans de Waal and Frans Lanting (reviewed by Keena D. Lykins)
- This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World, by Ernst Mayr (reviewed by Alan I. Packer)
- Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague, by Richard Rhodes (reviewed by Jim Kling)
- The Science of Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Or, How To Build A Dinosaur, by Rob DeSalle and David Lindley (reviewed by Keena D. Lykins)
- Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology, by Evelyn Fox Keller (reviewed by Alan I. Packer)
- Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond (reviewed by David C. Holzman)
- Darwin CD-ROM; 2nd Edition, edited by Pete Goldie and Michael Ghiselin (reviewed by Dean Haycock and Harvey Motulsky)
- The Case For Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must, by Robert Zubrin with Richard Wagner (reviewed by Keena D. Lykins)
- Chattanooga Sludge, by Molly Bang (reviewed by David C. Holzman)
- Virus X: Understanding the Real Threat of the New Pandemic Plagues, by Frank Ryan (reviewed by David Bradley)
- Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality, by Simon LeVay (reviewed by Keena D. Lykins)
- And the Blood Cried Out:A Prosecutors Spellbinding Account of the Power of DNA, by Harlan Levy (reviewed by Dean Haycock)
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan (reviewed by Matthew Cockerill)
- The Last Neanderthal: The Rise, Success, and Mysterious Extinction of Our Closest Human Relatives, by Ian Tattersall (reviewed by Keena D. Lykins)
- At Home in the Universe, by Stuart Kauffman (reviewed by William Tucker)
- Racing to the Beginning of the Road: The Search for the Origin of Cancer, by Robert A. Weinberg (reviewed by Dean A. Haycock)
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Software Review
- Adobe GoLive 5, reviewed by Robyn Ness
- Artemis 4, reviewed by Matt Carson
- Storyspace 2 for Macintosh, reviewed by Charlie Schick
- PHP 4, reviewed by Marijan Adam
- JFile 5.0, reviewed by Charlie Schick
- Dreamweaver 4, reviewed by Robyn Ness
- REALbasic Professional Edition 3.5, reviewed by John Ray
- ACLUSTER 2.0, reviewed by Virginia Fitzpatrick
- VMD (Visual Molecular Dynamics) 1.7, reviewed by William C. Ray
- RasMol 2.7, reviewed by Timothy Driscoll
- Canvas 8.01, reviewed by Ellen M. Quardokus
- LifeSeq Public Bioinformatics Tool, reviewed by Charlie Schick
- OmniGraffle 1.0.1, reviewed by Ellen M. Quardokus
- Biotechnix 3d 1.0.0, reviewed by Catherine O'Connell and David Carroll
- Mac OS X, reviewed by Mark Kizirian
- Star Office 5.2: Open Office build 619, reviewed by William C. Ray
- Array Designer 1.15, reviewed by S. Lalitha
- FileMaker Mobile 1.0 for Palm OS, reviewed by Charlie Schick
- Nisus Writer 6.0.1, reviewed by Ellen M. Quardokus
- GCG Wisconsin Package 10.1, reviewed by William C. Ray
- Primer Premier 5, reviewed by S. Lalitha
- OMIGA 2.0, reviewed by Paul Mittelstadt
- DnaSP 3.50, reviewed by Stephen W. Schaeffer
- REALbasic 2.1.2, reviewed by Mark Schier
- WebLab ViewerPro 3.7, reviewed by Timothy Driscoll
- AxoGraph 4.6 (with optional Data Acquisition Package), reviewed by Matt Jones
- MacVector 7.0, reviewed by George W. Chacko
- Adobe Illustrator 9.0, reviewed by Tim Vojt
- Swiss-PdbViewer 3.5, reviewed by Timothy Driscoll
- Adobe PageMaker Plus 6.52, reviewed by Tim Vojt
- Boxit 1.0, reviewed by Charlie Schick
- Sequence Quickie-Calc 1.0, reviewed by Catherine O'Connell
- pro Fit 5.5.0, reviewed by H. Steven Wiley
- Adobe Acrobat 4.0, reviewed by George W. Chacko
- Deltasoft PC 1.53, reviewed by John Fetter
- Filemaker Pro 5: Unlimited and Developer, reviewed by Charlie Schick
- GeneSpring 3.1, reviewed by Joseph P. Silva
- StatsDirect 1.615, reviewed by Virginia Fitzpatrick
- Digital Frog 2, reviewed by Susan Chacko
- KaleidaGraph 3.5, reviewed by George W. Chacko
- NIH Image 1.62, reviewed by Charlie Schick
- GraphicConverter 3.8, reviewed by Charlie Schick
- CodeWarrior Release 5, reviewed by Douglas Bowman
- TotalLab 1.00, reviewed by Markus Hardt
- Clone Manager 5.2, Primer Designer 4.1, Align Plus 4.0, reviewed by Catherine O'Connell
- Mathematica 4.0, reviewed by Asa Oudes
- Citation 7.1 for Windows, reviewed by Ellen M. Quardokus
- IPLab 3.2.4 for Macintosh, reviewed by George W. Chacko
- Primer Premier 4.1, reviewed by James Schmeits
- Bookends Plus 5.0.1 for Macintosh, reviewed by Ellen M. Quardokus
- Papyrus 8.0.6 for Macintosh, reviewed by Ellen M. Quardokus
- Vector NTI Suite for Macintosh and Windows, reviewed by H. Steven Wiley
- Chemscape Chime 2.0.3 for Windows 95/NT and Macintosh, reviewed by Steve Woods
- DeltaGraph, reviewed by George W. Chacko
- SigmaPlot 5.0 for Windows, reviewed by Charlie Schick
- IGOR Pro 3.14, reviewed by Mark Rand
- Omiga 1.1.3 For Windows, reviewed by Gestur Vidarsson
- Oligo 6.4, reviewed by Paul Muhlrad
- EndNote 3.1 for Macintosh, reviewed by Ellen M. Quardokus
- Spotfire Pro 4.0, reviewed by Aydemir Akin
- Bioinformatics: Guide for Evaluating Bioinformatic Software, reviewed by Steve Bottomley
- ColorIt! 4.01 for Macintosh, reviewed by Ellen M. Quardokus
- GraphPad Prism, reviewed by Ellen M. Quardokus
- Software Survey: What Can We Review for You?
- Genetwork: Detection of Potential Target Genes in Silico?, reviewed by Giovanni Lavorgna, Edoardo Boncinelli, Andreas Wagner, and Thomas Werner
- MOLE: Molecular Graphics and Computation for Windows, from Applied Thermodynamics, reviewed by Marie-Claire Daou
- Nisus Writer 5.1.3, reviewed by Marie-Claire Daou
- Arcus QuickStat (Biomedical) 1.1, reviewed by Dylan Bulseco
- Executor 2.0: Abacus Research and Development, Inc., reviewed by Steve Woods
- SeqWeb 1.0 for GCG Wisconsin Package, reviewed by Dylan A. Bulseco
- StrainMan 1.0.4: Caesar Software, LLC, reviewed by Ellen M.Quardokus
- Interactive Biology Multimedia Series: CyberEd Inc., reviewed by Michelle Friend Hutton
- Amplify 1.2 for Macintosh: Software for PCR, reviewed by Steve Woods
- Life Sciences Workbench Data Analysis Toolbox for Excel, reviewed by Gil Alterovitz
- Interactive Biology Multimedia Series, reviewed by Gary Fortier
- GraphPad InStat 3 for Windows, reviewed by Dylan A. Bulseco
- Mathematica 3.0, reviewed by Jose G. Teodoro
- NIH Image 1.61 for Macintosh, reviewed by Ellen M. Quardokus
- Lasergene for Windows 95 and NT, reviewed by Steve Woods
- Electronic NIH Grant Applications with GrantForms, reviewed by Emmanouil Skoufos
- Grant Tracker 5.2 for Windows, reviewed by Al Aplin
- EndNote Plus 2.2 and EndLink 2.0, reviewed by Ellen M. Quardokus
- Prophet 5.0: National Institutes of Health and BBN Technologies, reviewed by Emmanouil Skoufos
- Analysis of Protein Sequences with PepTool: BioTools Inc., reviewed by Stuart M. Brown
- S-PLUS 4.0 for Windows: MathSoft, Inc., reviewed by Dylan Bulseco
- MacVector 6.0: Oxford Molecular Group, reviewed by Jose G. Teodoro
- Molecular Images: Version 1.3 for Macintosh, reviewed by Steve Woods
- Origin 5.0 for Windows: Microcal Software, Inc., reviewed by Dylan Bulseco
- KaleidaGraph 3.08: Synergy Software, reviewed by Marie-Claire Daou
- ISIS/Draw: MDL Information Systems, Inc., reviewed by Gil Alterovitz
- nQuery Advisor for Windows: Statistical Solutions, Ltd., reviewed by Dylan Bulseco
- PDEase2D: Macsyma Inc., reviewed by Dylan Bulseco
- Lasergene for Macintosh and Windows, reviewed by Jose G. Teodoro
- RasMol for Macintosh and Windows, reviewed by Steve Woods
- Bio/Chem LabAssistant: Interactive Learning Europe, reviewed by Emmanouil Skoufos
- ActivStats: Data Description, Inc., reviewed by Dylan Bulseco
- IDL 5.0 for Windows and Unix: Research Systems, Inc., reviewed by Dylan Bulseco
- Tecplot 7.0 for Windows and Unix: Amtec Engineering, Inc., reviewed by Dylan Bulseco
- EndNote Plus 2.3: Niles & Associates, Inc., reviewed by Dylan Bulseco
- Scientific Notebook: TCI Software Research and Brooks/Cole Publishing, reviewed by Dylan Bulseco
- Gene Inspector: Textco, Inc., reviewed by Ellen M. Quardokus)
- MacClade 3.06 for Macintosh, reviewed by Stephen B. Vigo
- Gene Construction Kit Version 1.2 for Power Mac: Textco, Inc., reviewed by Al Aplin
- Sequencher 3.0 for Power Mac, reviewed by Karin Jegalian
- Data Analysis in Windows, reviewed by Dylan Bulseco
- Plasmid Tracker for Windows: Salt City Software, reviewed by Stephen
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Software Solutions
- Using Origin's Nonlinear Curve Fitter for Simultaneously Fitting Two Datasets to Two Different Equations, by Ryan Toomey
- Text-Based Database Searching, by Fran Lewitter
- Correction for [3H]-cAMP Recovery Using Microcal Origin, by Dylan A. Bulseco
- Analysis of Standard Curves with SigmaPlot 4.0, by Richard Mitchell
- Automatic F Tests to Compare Nonlinear Fits with GraphPad Prism, reviewed by Dylan Bulseco
- NIH Image for Alignment of Serial Sections, by David J. Merritt
- Differential Equations with pro Fit, by Kurt Sutter
- Getting Lecture Notes Online with Documentation Studio, by Dylan Bulseco
- Minimal Models for Glucose and Insulin Kinetics with MLAB, by Gary D. Knott
- Automated Analysis of a Fluorescent Assay for Nitrite with Microcal Origin and LabTalk, by Dylan Bulseco and Christopher Schonhoff
- Protein Shape Dynamics with Proteinmorphosis, by Yu Yi
- Analysis of Nonspecific Equilibrium Binding Data with DynaFit, by Petr Kuzmic
- Modeling Biophysical Calcium Diffusion in the Heart Using PDEase2D, by Michael Stern
- Global Nonlinear Curve Fitting Using Microcal Origin, by Dylan Bulseco
- Multiple Site Binding with MLAB, by Gary D. Knott
- Modeling of Skeletal Muscles with MATLAB and MATCOM, by Victor Ng-Thow-Hing
- Visualizing Medical Data with StatView, by Herman Mehling
- Advancing Medical Imaging with IDL, by Jon Snyder
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Essay
- What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee, from What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and Their Genes, by Jonathan Marks
- Lords of the Harvest, from Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food, by Daniel Charles
- Mammoth, from Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant, by Richard Stone
- The Splendid Feast of Reason, from The Splendid Feast of Reason, by S. Jonathan Singer
- Crimes Against Nature, from Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation, by Karl Jacoby
- Human Trials, from Human Trials: Scientists, Investors, and Patients in the Quest for a Cure, by Susan Quinn
- Frogs, Flies & Dandelions, from Frogs, Flies & Dandelions: Speciation-The Evolution of New Species, by Menno Schilthuizen
- Tales from the Underground, from Tales from the Underground: A Natural History of Subterranean Life, by David W. Wolfe
- Autobiography, more from Collected Essays, by Thomas Henry Huxley
- Autobiography, from Collected Essays, by Thomas Henry Huxley
- Crime Watch, from Loose Ends, by Sydney Brenner
- We Can Sleep Later, from We Can Sleep Later: Alfred D. Hershey and the Origins of Molecular Biology, Edited by Franklin W. Stahl
- The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin
- Are We Hardwired?, from Are We Hardwired? The Role of Genes in Human Behavior, by William R. Clark and Michael Grunstein
- A Passion for DNA, from A Passion for DNA: Genes, Genomes, and Society, by James D. Watson
- Science in Translation, from Science in Translation: Movements of Knowledge through Cultures and Time, by Scott L. Montgomery
- Pandora's Picnic Basket, from Pandora's Picnic Basket: The Potential and Hazards of Genetically Modified Foods, by Alan McHughen
- Killer Algae, from Killer Algae, by Alexandre Meinesz Translated by Daniel Simberloff
- Xeno, from Xeno: The Promise of Transplanting Animal Organs into Humans, by David K.C. Cooper and Robert P. Lanza
- French DNA, from French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory, by Paul Rabinow
- The Undiscovered Mind, by John Horgan
- The Nothing That Is, by Robert Kaplan
- Three Hypotheses Respecting the History of Nature, by Thomas Henry Huxley
- Time of Our Lives, by Tom Kirkwood
- The Tale of the Beagle, by Lois Wingerson
- Almost Like a Whale, by Steve Jones
- The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making, by Adrian Johns
- The Growth of Science in the Nineteenth Century, by Sir Michael Foster
- The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin
- Why Is It So Difficult to Write the History of Contemporary Science? , by Jeff Hughes and Thomas Söderqvist
- Mesmerized, by Alison Winter
- The Touchstone of Life, by Werner R. Loewenstein
- On the Physical Basis of Life, by Thomas Henry Huxley
- What Remains to Be Discovered, by John Maddox
- Waking Up in the Universe - review and video clips from Richard Dawkins' Faraday lectures, by Matthew Cockerill
- The Pattern of Evolution, by Niles Eldredge
- Scope and Limit of Scientific Materialism, by John Tyndall
- A Place on the Glacial Till from A Place on the Glacial Till: Time, Land, and Nature Within an American Town, by Thomas Fairchild Sherman
- Mood Genes from Mood Genes: Hunting For Origins of Mania and Depression, by Samuel H. Barondes
- Pulvis et Umbra from Across the Plains, by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Night Comes to the Cretaceous from Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Dinosaur Extinction and the Transformation of Modern Geology, by James Lawrence Powell
- Viral Sex from Viral Sex: The Nature of AIDS, by Jaap Goudsmit
- Nafanua from Nafanua: Saving the Samoan Rain Forest, by Paul Alan Cox
- The Scientific Revolution from The Scientific Revolution, by Steven Shapin
- The Handicap Principle from The Handicap Principle: A Missing Piece of Darwin's Puzzle, by Amotz and Avishag Zahavi
- Privileged Hands from Privileged Hands: A Remarkable Scientific Life, by Geerat Vermeij
- Photographing Feelings from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, by Charles Darwin
- A Revolution in Dating from The Origin of Modern Humans, by Roger Lewin
- Hopeful Monsters from The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation, by Clara Pinto-Correia
- David in His Bubble: X-linked SCID from The New Healers: The Promise and Problems of Molecular Medicine in the Twenty-first Century, by William R. Clark
- From Concept to Tool from Making PCR: A Story of Biotechnology, by Paul Rabinow
- The Slow Birth of Biology from The Ascent of Science, by Brian L. Silver
- Yellow Fever from Viruses, Plagues, and History, by Michael B.A. Oldstone
- Rules of the Moral Economy from Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life , by Robert E. Kohler
- Extraordinary Little Beast from Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life , by Robert E. Kohler
- Splitting the Brain from Left Brain, Right Brain: Perspectives from Cognitive Neuroscience, by Sally P. Springer and Georg Deutsch
- G-8 from Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research, by Alice Wexler
- El Mal, by Alice Wexler
- Eugenics Now, by Walter Truett Anderson
- How Do I Rate?, by Sidney Brenner
- A Decade of PCR, audio excerpts by J. Watson, K. Mullis, A. Ellington, and S. Fodor
- A Liberal Education, by T.H. Huxley
- The Beauty of the Beastly, by Natalie Angier
- The Genetic Relic, by Dorothy Nelkin and M. Susan Lindee
- In the Beginning, by Errol C. Friedberg
- Searching the Medical Web: Introducing Online Resources and Terminology, by Bruce C. McKenzie
- Biochemical Genetics: Some Recollections, by George W. Beadler
- Charles Darwin: A Great Mind Remembered, edited by Walter Gratzer
- Introduction to A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid by J.D. Watson and F.H.C. Crick, by Sydney Brenner
- Foreword from Outstanding Papers in Biology, by Walter Gratzer
- How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now, by William H. Calvin
- A Unified Theory of the Brain: Excerpt from Peter Pan, edited by Sir James M. Barrie
- The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1861: Excerpted Musings on Design and Slavery, edited by Frederick Burkhardt
- A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock, by Evelyn Fox Keller (from Interlude: A Sketch of the Terrain)
- Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics, by Edward Rothstein (from Theme and Variations: The Pursuit of Beauty)
- The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology, by Horace Freeland Judson (from Conclusion, 1978)
- Darwin and the Beagle, by Alan Moorehead (from chapter 8, The Andes)
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Poem
- Teeth, by Lynn Kozlowski
- The Unhinged Heart, by Jemshed Khan
- Bayou Egrets, by David Eagleman
- Safe Haven, by Anna Tambour
- Child, After Nature's Revenge, by Dennis Fleming
- Negative, by Michael Grove
- Bo-peep, by Paul Board
- To Sleep, by John Keats
- Catechismic Chaos, by Anna Tambour
- Urban Wildlife - Toronto, by Lynn Kozlowski
- Sonnet to the Color Black, by Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury
- Ghost of an Arcadian Hominid (after reading The Face of Violence by J. Bronowski), by Keith Davies
- My Mother's Friend Shows Me the Human Womb, by Ivy Warwick
- A Day in the Life of a Red Ant Guard, by Anna Tambour
- A Body of Work, by Vijay Aswani
- Directions, by Kevin D. Young
- Peer Review Anthology, by Lynn Kozlowski
- Dementophobia: The Lonely Life of a Scientist, by Charles Baker
- What We Learn in Medical School, by Dorothy Sutton
- A Thunderstorm, by Archibald Lampman
- Carolina Wren (For Cindy Hogan), by Wallace Kaufman
- Sunflower, by Allen C. Fischer
- Jonah Remembers the Whale, by Ivy Warwick
- The World Below the Brine, by Walt Whitman
- Pilling the Man, by Lynn Kozlowski
- Late Autumn Night in Iowa, by Mitul Sarkar
- Winter Uplands, by Archibald Lampman
- Needles of the Kyrie, by Allen C. Fischer
- Octopus, by Arthur Clement Hilton
- Memory, by John Stone
- Barnacles, by Jack Coulehan
- Homo Faber 2000 (After reading Homo Faber by Max Frisch), by Keith Davies
- Blue, by Dennis Shay
- Bees, by Norman Rowland Gale
- Transplant, by John Stone
- To the Immortal Memory of the Halibut, on Which I Dined This Day, Monday, April 26, 1784, by William Cowper
- Academic Termination, by Lynn Kozlowski
- Observer Effects on Weather at the Gulf of Carpentaria, by Michael Grove
- Experimental Protocol, by William John Watkins
- The Angler, by Thomas Buchanan Reed
- Fossil Shell, by Michael Grove
- My Mother Shows Me the Human Brain: Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, by Ivy Warwick
- Best Thoughts, by Samantha Zeitlin
- Hymn To Science, by Mark Akenside
- Phylogeny of Me, by Bruce Alan Noll
- "The Idea Is to Have Hearts on a Shelf", by Maria Terrone
- The Mathematician to His Mate, by Ivan Berger
- Darwin, Once Meant For The Clergy, Imagines His Sermon On Noah, by Ivy Warwick
- Ad Astra, by Michael Grove
- Touching the Spring of the Air, by Chris Dietz
- While Watching His Own Echocardiogram, He Welcomes in the New Year, by John Stone
- Spinal Tap, by Carol Wierzbicki
- Double Helix, by Barbara Seaman
- Globe, by Mark Featherstone
- Song Of The Worm, by Eliza Cook
- A Visit from Dr. Merlin, by Richard Solly
- A Rare and Still Scandalous Subject, by Richard Solly
- News, by Richard Solly
- The Goodnight Kiss, by Richard Solly
- Dog Science, by Jennifer Nerissa Davis
- The Skylark, by John Clare
- To a Mouse, by Robert Burns
- The Science of Longevity, by Jemshed Khan
- Sonnet - To Science, by Edgar Allan Poe
- Disclaimer, and an Invitation, by Trenton Hickman
- To Music, to becalm his Fever, by Robert Herrick
- Lines Written in Early Spring, by William Wordsworth
- Arboretum, by Mark Featherstone
- The Bass, by John Stone
- The Snake, by Emily Dickinson
- Madame Curie, by Maria Terrone
- Two Bodies, by Richard Solly
- Gross Anatomy: Five Poems, by Sabrina Hussain
- Thrushes, by Siegfried Sassoon
- To Autumn, by John Keats
- On the Grasshopper and Cricket, by John Keats
- The Urine Specimen, by Ted Kooser
- The Snail, by Richard Lovelace
- An Evolutionary Nod to God: Station 4, by Douglas Livingstone
- The Seasons: Summer (excerpts), by James Thomson
- The Caterpillar, by Anna Laetitia Barbauld
- The Buzzard, by José Emilio Pacheco
- A Contemplation upon Flowers, by Henry King
- Address to a Patrician at Station 8, by Douglas Livingstone
- On the Beagle, by Philip Appleman
- The Dead Who Are Not Raised, by Lynn Domina
- The Human Pincushion, by Richard Solly
- A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day, by John Donne
- Monet Refuses the Operation, by Lisel Mueller
- The Maldive Shark, by Herman Melville
- The Gift, by Jack Coulehan
- Distant Howling, by Miroslav Holub
- Autumn Leaves, by Marilyn Chin
- Instructions for Search, by Francine M. Storey
- Teeth, by Richard Fein
- Sonnet XI, by William Shakespeare
- The Nature of Colors, by James Gurley
- The Moth, by Miroslav Holub
- Of Wings, by Corrine De Winter
- Fifth Philosopher's Song, by Aldous Huxley
- Plato's Comeuppance, by Raphael Carter
- The Age of Protists: A Sonnet, by Raphael Carter
- Overview, by Richard Fein
- A Noiseless Patient Spider, by Walt Whitman
- The Chambered Nautilus, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- The British Museum, by Miroslav Holub
- The Temple of Science, by James Gurley
- Illumination, by Elizabeth Barrette
- The Impossible Task of Ivan Pavlov, by James Gurley
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WebScan
- Advances in Dentistry, by Amy Fluet
- Resisting Antibiotics, by Rachel Ehrenberg
- Acupuncture: Points of Interest, by Cindy Seiwert
- Sickness as a Weapon: Chemical and Biological Warfare, by Dean A. Haycock
- Computing New Biology, by Mike May
- The Evolutionary Timeline of Trees, by Rachel Ehrenberg
- Medicinal Marijuana: Weeding Out the Evidence, by Cindy Seiwert
- Biology's Light Bulbs, by Mike May
- Nutrition on the Net, by Elaine Shen
- Pain, by Cindy Seiwert
- Panspermia: Where Did We Come From?, by Emily Willingham
- Untangling Twisted Polymers, by Mike May
- Looking Back on Biology, by Amy Fluet
- Digging for Dinosaurs Online, by Mike May
- Sleepless in Cyberspace, by Nicola Gaedeke
- The Placebo Effect: It's Not All in Your Head, by Cindy Seiwert
- Eyes on the Web, by Amy Fluet
- Robot-Assisted Microsurgery, by Mike May
- Cleaning Up Pollution with Plants, by Nicola Gaedeke
- Early Images: Developmental Biology Online, by Amy Fluet
- Biomathematics: Painting Biology by Numbers, by Kyle Shertzer
- Inside an Infant's Brain, by Cindy Seiwert
- Chemistry for Biologists, by Amy Fluet
- The Spread of Mad Cow Disease, by Mike May
- Exploring EMFs, by Amy Fluet
- Depression: It's Not Just in Your Head, by Cindy Seiwert
- Where Materials Meet Biology, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Proteomics: Proteins Get Their Turn, by Amy Fluet
- Molecular Visualization for the Masses, by David J. Marcey
- Schizophrenia: A Disorder of Neural Development?, by Cindy Seiwert
- The Next Big Step: Functional Genomics, by Amy Fluet
- Career Resources for Bioscientists, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Attacking Cancer with the Web, by Laura Bonetta
- A Cellular Fountain of Youth?, by Cindy Seiwert
- It's Time We Had a Little Chat, by Amy Fluet
- Genes on the Web, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Microscale Biomedical Devices, by Amit Singh
- Cataloging the Web of Life: Biodiversity Web Sites, by Amy Fluet
- Signaling in Plant Cells, by Gethyn J. Allen
- Changing Landscapes for Proteins, by Gordon S. Rule
- Hot Sites: Online Global Warming Data, by Amy Fluet
- Science Shopping, by Mike May
- All about Arabidopsis, by Amy Fluet
- Bionics from Biochips, by Mike May
- Human Genome Project: An Update, by Emily Willingham
- Growing Resources: Botanical Gardens Online, by Amy Fluet
- Networks of Neurons, by Mike May
- What's Cookin' in Food Science?, by Jenni Laidman
- Getting Through Graduate School, by Amy Fluet
- A Biological Century, by Mike May
- Statistically Significant Sites, by Amy Fluet
- A High-Tech Food Fight, by Mike May
- Astrobiology Online, by Beth Schachter
- In the Chips for DNA Expression, by Mike May
- Muscling Your Way around the Web, by Nancy Ross-Flanigan
- Following Photons through Photosynthesis, by Jenni Laidman
- Leonardo Online: The Anatomical Studies of Leonardo da Vinci, by Dean A. Haycock
- Bioinformatics Software Online, by James Cuff
- VRML for Biology, by Mike May
- Nature's Pharmacy, by John C. Batulis
- Zoological Parks, by Nancy Ross-Flanigan
- Pathways to Enlightenment, by Amy Fluet
- Endocrine Disrupters: Mountain or Molehill?, by Emily Willingham
- Virtual Cuts: Bloodless, Online Dissections, by Dean A. Haycock
- Sequencing Sites, by Amy Fluet
- Y2K: A Web of Worries, by Mike May
- Online Biotechnology Resources, by Kevin Ahern
- Browsing for Birds, by Mike May
- Honey, I Shrunk the MEMS, by Katherine Austin
- The Rhythmic Tick of the Biological Clock, by Kate Winkler
- Take a Walk on Biology's Mechanical Side, by Mike May
- Locating Mind with Magnetism, by Martin Buechert
- Cell Death's Links to the Web of Life, by Kate Winkler
- Forensic Biology, by Dean A. Haycock
- Molecular Modeling: Internet Resources for Biologists, by Christopher M. Smith
- Science News on the Net: Fast Food, Bistro or Order In?, by Sean Henahan
- Complex Systems in Biology, by Marina Chicurel
- A Billion Base Pairs Up for Grabs, by Jo McEntyre
- Summer Surfing with the Kids, by Amy Fluet
- Web Resources for Model Organisms, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Travel Medicine, by Dean A. Haycock
- Internet Resources for Women Biologists, by Susan L. Forsburg
- Useful Beauty: Photomicrography Websites, by Marina Chicurel
- Discussion Groups on the Web, by Amy Fluet
- The Forsburg Lab, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Grant-Writing Tips and Resources, by Amy Fluet
- Check Out the Alternatives, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Chemical and Biological Warfare Online, by Dean A. Haycock
- Biosupply Resources on the Web, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Research Collaboration Via MOO, by Zev Leifer
- A Happy Collision of Interests, by Ed Rybicki
- The Fallon Lab: Mechanisms of Synapse Formation and Plasticity, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Adult-Onset Neurodegenerative Diseases, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Online Bioethics Resources, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Joy of Cooking: Protocols on the Web, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Lights and Wires in a Box, by Dean Haycock
- Notice the Library Sprouting on Your Desktop?, by Ellis Rubinstein
- Bioscience History Alive Online, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Order Out of Chaos: Organizing Your Internet Searches, by Zev Leifer
- Pounding the Virtual Pavement, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Science Humor on the Internet, by Dean Haycock
- Virtual Biology Courses, by Dean Haycock
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Web Site Review
- A Pile of Protocols, by Mike May
- Jumping into Genetics, by Mike May
- Birding with a Purpose, by Amy Fluet
- Shrinking Sensors, by Mike May
- Rock-a-Bye Web Site, by Mike May
- Translating the Tunes of Brain Resonance, by Amy Fluet
- Organizing Orthopedics, by Mike May
- Life from Death, by Mike May
- Investigating with Insects, by Amy Fluet
- Modeling the Meeting of Metal and Protein on the Net, by Christopher M. Smith
- Science Daily, by Mike May
- Breathing New Life into Alife Online, by Amy Fluet
- FlyBase, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Access Excellence, by Pamela M. Gannon
- All the Virology on the WWW, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Biology of the Mammary Gland, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Dennis Kunkel's Microscopy, by Pamela M. Gannon
- BioSpace, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Alzheimer Research Forum, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Yeast Site Rising, by Pamela M. Gannon
- GrantsNet, by Pamela M. Gannon
- The Fish Net, by Pamela M. Gannon
- LabConsumer, by Pamela M. Gannon
- The Protein Kinase Resource, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Outbreak, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Neurosciences on the Internet, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Planet Science, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Bioethics Internet Project, by Pamela M. Gannon
- REBASE: The Restriction Enzyme Database, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Bugs in the News, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Evaluated MEDLINE, by Pamela M. Gannon
- MendelWeb, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Deja News, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Science's Next Wave, by Pamela M. Gannon
- Clones-R-Us: Dream Technologies International, by Pamela M. Gannon
- The MIT Biology Hypertextbook, by Pamela M. Gannon
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Careers
- Sensing Incentives: Keeping the Team Motivated, by Robert W. Wallace
- Accidents Will Happen, by David Bradley
- Teamwork: What to Do When the Deadline Looms, by Robert W. Wallace
- Deep, Deep Down, by David Bradley
- The Dynamics of Team Formation, by Robert W. Wallace
- Researching Undergrads: Sampling Life at the Bench, by David Bradley
- Making Teamwork Work: The Importance of Diverse Psychological Types, by Robert W. Wallace
- "It's the Dilithium Crystals, Captain!": Science on the Screen, by David Bradley
- Masters of the Biouniverse: Business for Scientists, by Fran Smith
- Watch Your Extremities: The Real Survivor, by David Bradley
- Booming Bioethics Seeks Sense of Self, by Maia Szalavitz
- Making a Living in the Past: Museum Research, by David Bradley
- New Measures: Bioengineering and the Whitaker Foundation, by Fran Smith
- Corporate Academia, by David Bradley
- Designer Labs: Does Aesthetics Make for Better Science?, by Jay Martin
- Uncool Boffins, All: Children's Perceptions of Scientists, by David Bradley
- The Sweet Smell of Success: Careers in the Perfume Industry, by Kirstie Saltsman
- DNetA, by David Bradley
- Bioinformatics: Key to 21st Century Biology, by Robert W. Wallace
- Is Your Trailing Spouse an Insignificant Other?, by David Bradley
- Forensic Science: The What, How and Why of "Who Dun It?", by Kirstie Saltsman
- Contractual Obligations, by David Bradley
- The Postdoc's Progress, by Jay Martin
- Poached Eggheads, by David Bradley
- Time Off for Good Behavior, by Beth Schachter
- Plugging the British Brain Drain, by David Bradley
- The Other Side of Life: Educating Young Scientists about Business, by Deborah J. Ausman
- Too Few at the Top: Women in Science, by David Bradley
- Who Owns Online Course Work?, by Robert W. Wallace
- Peer to Peer, by David Bradley
- RISE-ing to Higher Education, by Maia Szalavitz
- Goodbye Benchtop, Hello Laptop, by Beth Schachter
- The Humanity of Science, by Robert W. Wallace
- Drawing Down the Bones, by Toni Reed
- Netting a Job: Job-Hunting on the Internet, by David Bradley
- Can You Be More Creative?, by Christopher G. Edwards
- Power to the Postdocs: The Johns Hopkins Postdoctoral Association, by Lisa M. Kozlowski
- Lab TV: When the Cameras Start Rolling, by Brian Vastag
- The Right Stuff: What Distinguishes Great Scientists, by Christopher G. Edwards
- New Paradigms: Teaching in Context, and on a Need-to-Know Basis, by A. Malcolm Campbell
- How About a Marketing Career?, by Christopher G. Edwards
- Scientist Exchange Network: The Scientific Travel Agents, by David Bradley
- The Art and Science of Effective Email, by Christopher G. Edwards
- Testing the Postbaccalaureate Waters at NIH, by Amanda Leigh Haag
- Make Your Figures Count, by Christopher G. Edwards
- Profiting from Your Thesis: The Merrill Lynch Innovation Grants Competition, by Lara Pullen
- Thriving Under the Influence: Managing Conflicts of Interest, by Christopher G. Edwards
- The NIH Postdoctoral Experience A View from Bethesda, by Emily Klotz
- Talking Science: How to Prepare for Presentations, by Christopher G. Edwards
- The Grad School Survey, by Stefanie Sanford
- Ain't Misbehavin': Addressing Wrongdoing in Research, by Tabitha M. Powledge
- Science and Technical Translation, by Ulrike Walter
- Surviving Your First Position: You'll Manage, by Christopher G. Edwards
- Bio Biz, by Lara Pullen
- Science Politics for Dummies, by Christopher G. Edwards
- Heavenly Labs: How to Find Them and Hellish Labs: How to Avoid or Escape Them, by Beryl Lieff Benderly and Lara Pullen
- A Data Magnet for Science Careers: The Howard Hughes Web Initiative,
- A Dollar in the Life, by Jim Kling
- Bench Work and Bull Markets, by Jim Kling
- Consider Consulting, by Christopher G. Edwards
- Risk Assessment as a Career, by Lara Pullen
- Creating Fairness for Women Scientists: Lessons from MIT, by Christopher G. Edwards
- Incubating More Than Just Eggs: North Carolina's Research Triangle Park, by Susan Volkmar
- Get a Life! New Options for Balancing Work and Home, by Christopher G. Edwards
- Are You Ready for Electronic Grant Application Submission?, by Liane Reif-Lehrer
- Searching for a Tenure Track? Consider the New NIH, by Christopher G. Edwards
- Pictures of Life: Using Web Images to Teach Biology, by Malcolm Campbell
- One Enzyme Fits All, by Malcolm Campbell
- Innovation: Making Ideas Work for Themselves, by J. James Cotter
- Out of the Lab and into the Kitchen, by Alison Mack
- Surviving Conferences, by Sarah Bellum
- Congratulations, Doctor: Now What?, by Haleh V. Samiei
- Help Wanted: Mentoring in Biology, by Lois Wingerson
- Home Page Homework, by A. Malcolm Campbell
- Virtual Reprints as Reading Assignments, by A. Malcolm Campbell
- Publishers Roulette, by Christopher Edwards
- Going for the Gold, by Liane Reif-Lehrer
- What They Didn't Teach You in Grad School, by Christopher G. Edwards
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Top Ten
- Holiday Books, by Dean A. Haycock
- Not the Nobels 2000, by Tabitha M. Powledge
- Top Ten Reasons Against Peer Review, an HMS Beagle Reader Poll
- Top Ten Reasons for Peer Review, an HMS Beagle Reader Poll
- Top Ten Reasons Reasons the Public Fears Science, an HMS Beagle Reader Poll
- Top Ten Reasons Reasons Scientists Fear the Public, an HMS Beagle Reader Poll
- Top Ten Reasons to Work in Academia, by Linnea Hager
- Top Ten Reasons to Work in Industry, by Linnea Hager
- Making It:The Millennium's Top Ten Inventions
- The Not-Quite Nobels Your Own Top Ten in Biology, by Tabitha M. Powledge
- Top Ten Reasons Not to Do a Ph.D., by Christopher G. Edwards
- Top Ten Reasons to Do a Ph.D., by Christopher G. Edwards
- Top Ten Nobel Laureates without Doctorates, by Linnea Hager
- Top Top Ten Novels Written by Scientists, by Dean Haycock
- Top Autobiographies by Scientists, by Dean Haycock
- Theories of Dinosaur Extinction, by Nikheel Dhekne
- Women Nobel Laureates
- Beside Ourselves: The Cloning Poll
- Top Ten Web Sites for Darwin and the Voyage of HMS Beagle, by Nikheel Dhekne
- Copy Us on This One: Your Thoughts on Cloning
- The Not-Quite Nobels, by Tabitha M. Powledge
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Fiction
- A Test of Metal: Part Three, by Jamie Shanks
- A Test of Metal: Part Two, by Jamie Shanks
- A Test of Metal: Part One, by Jamie Shanks
- Storm, by Lance Bond
- Involuntary Servitude, by Dean S. Warren
- Beauty Shop, by Susan Urbanek Linville
- The Eel, by Anna Tambour
- The Stubborn Strand, by Paul Looby
- A Flaw in the Lord Harrington Scenario, by Steven L. Peck
- The Chosen, by Anna Tambour
- Hunter, by Akshita Nanda
- Germ Theory, by Marlissa Campbell
- POCO, by John P. Leppla
- There's More to Life Than Biology, by Mike Mayer
- Me-Too, by Anna Tambour
- Scientia Potentia Est, by Chris Paul
- Ghost in the Machine , by Paul Board
- Hitler Had Only One Ball, by Josh Karpf
- The Secret Lives of Plants, by Andy Oldfield
- Lactose Intolerance, by Jim Kling
- Harmon's Only Cow, by Mike Mayer
- Squirrels, by Jeff Hecht
- Natural Selection, by Jim Erkiletian
- Evolution or, My First Serious Scientific Adventure and How a Poorly Planned Experiment Nearly Led to Disaster, by Paul Dueweke
- Chill Pill, by Davis Ryman
- Flora and Shauna, by Janet Barron
- Tragedy's Children, by Ed Rybicki
- POCO, by John P. Leppla
- The End of Evolution as We Know It, by David Wesley Hill
- Innocuous but Lethal, by Mike Adamson
- Life Sentences, by Henry Slesar
- Guaranteed for Life, by Carolyn Farkas
- Jamais Vu, by Geoffrey A. Landis
- What Really Happened, by Anthony Doerr
- Radioactivity, by Keith Seifert
- Calling the Children, by David Wesley Hill
- The Resident Flora, by Bruce Sterling
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Humor
- The Liveliest Effusion of Wit and Humor, by Jan A. Witkowski
- Just Another Dissertation, by Christina Petersen
- Research Breakthroughs from L'Institute Sacre Bleu, by Patrick Runkel
- Nuts!, by Jamie Shanks
- Hot Summer Science Books, Reviewed by Ben Henley
- Risk Factors Associated with a Clipboard Romance: A Pilot Study, by Patrick Runkel
- Parents'-Bed Addiction Do Infants Have Problem Habits, Too?, by Justin Sherman
- Publication (with apologies to A.A. Milne), by Meredith G. Warshaw
- Warning to Grant Reviewers, by Lloyd Fricker
- Warshaw's Field Guide to Atypical Statistics, by Meredith G. Warshaw
- Corpsicle, Inc., by Jim Erkiletian
- If Nobel Prizes Were Decided Like Presidential Elections, by Lloyd Fricker
- Gas Gauge, by Patrick Runkel
- Great Scientific Papers of the Twenty-First Century, by Ben Henley
- The Danger of Feline Skylight Injuries, by Lynne V. McFarland and Marc J. McFarland
- The Molecular Genetics Shopper's Challenge, by Jiri Drabek
- Inflating the Bionic Man, by Jamie Shanks
- Summer Science Camps, by Lloyd Fricker
- Everything I Need to Know I Learned on NIH Study Section, by Lloyd Fricker
- Holding Your Own: Handling Developments in Developmental Biology, by Jonathan Bard
- How NIH Officials Actually Convince People to Review Grant Applications, by Lloyd Fricker
- Understanding the Summary Statement, by Lloyd Fricker
- Future Grants, by Lloyd Fricker
- Exercise Tips for Grant Reviewers, by Lloyd Fricker
- Understanding the Score, by Lloyd Fricker
- 1999 Ig Profiles , by Karen Hopkin
- The Seedy Opera, by Marc Abrahams and Don Kater
- Quiz for Students in Kansas Public Schools, by Lloyd Fricker
- Quiz for Potential Grant Reviewers, by Lloyd Fricker
- Are You a Real Scientist?, by Lloyd Fricker
- The Need for Double-Strength Placebos, by Frederic N. Firestone
- Love Chemistry, by Rosie Mestel
- Apples and Oranges: A Comparison, by Scott A. Sandford
- Techniques for the Inadvertent Mismanipulation of Samples and their Relevance to the Ethics of Human Cloning, by Karen Hopkin and William Gerson
- Il Destino di Grant Application: A Tragic Opera in Three Acts, by Lloyd Fricker
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Art Gallery
- Paradise Created: The Eden Project, from Moira Sarsfield
- The Evolution of Zoological Knowledge: Illustrated by Elephants, from Moira Sarsfield
- With Feathers, from Cary Barnhard
- Umvelt: Animal Vision, from Cary Barnhard
- Journey to the Center of the Heart, from Moira Sarsfield
- The Art of Healing, from Moira Sarsfield
- An Apoptosis Trilogy, from Julie Newdoll
- Spira Mirabilis, from Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
- Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution, from Exit Art Materials
- Covert Motions, from Eadeweard Muybridge and Marcel Duchamp
- Spheres in Space, from Hewlett-Packard's Basic Research Institute
- Our Fine Feathered Friends, from the Hill Ornithology Collection
- Art on The Molecular Level, from David Goodsell
- Botanica Online, from the Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota at Duluth
- Bugs Online, from The Smithsonian Institution Library
- Send in the Clones, from the 1999 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony
- Images of Spooky Scans, from the Combining TMS and fMRI Localisations of Function Web page
- Repressor Molecules, from Control of Gene Expression Web site
- Scientific Images of Feet, from Images of the Colossal Statue of Constantine, Rome
- Envisioning Evolution, from the American Museum of Natural History; and
Origins, by Daniel Lee
3-D x-ray tomographic reconstruction - by Johannes Lehr; and X-rays of crabs - by Nick Veasey
- Dolomite and Calcite Crystallites and Crystals Within Haversian Canals - from The Dinosaur Bone Collection, by Michael W. Davidson
- Art for Science's Sake, Science for Art's Sake, reprinted from the Wellcome Trust's: Before Birth: The Art and Science of Life in the Womb
- Acute stroke, speech arrest, MR-PD, from Keith A. Johnson and J. Alex Becker ; and "My mind gallops in a tundra...", by Ellen Driscoll
- Cytochrome C, detail, from Irving Geis; and Dreamtime Heroes of the Great Sandy Desert, by Tjumpo Tjapanangk
- DNA Phase Transition, from Michael W. Davidson; and A Portrait of DNA, by Roger Berry
- Mouse fibroblasts (160x), Fluorescence, from Barbara A. Danowski; and Lost Referential, LP Demers & Bill Vorn
- Drug molecules, from Gayle Gross de Nunez and SAVANTES; and Traveler on the Yellow Wave, by William S. Burroughs
- Frog Reconstructions, The Whole Frog Project; and Desert Iguana, by Carol Selter
- Images from Nature, an illustrated catalog from London's Natural History Museum
- Breath Taken: The Landscape & Biography of Asbestos, an exhibition by Bill Ravanesi
- Doomsday, from Ulla Godwin; andExcerpt from Metropolis, by Fritz Lang
- Open Heart Surgery Movie, from The Franklin Institute Science Museum; andDonor Lymph Nodes, by Max Aguilera-Hellweg
- Banana Exploding, by Andrew Davidhazy; andNature Reborn, by Ming Fay
- Lincoln, by Bela Julesz & Leon Harmon; andKeith/four times, by Chuck Close
- Human, full body scan, by Meditherm; andRecollections, by Ed Tannenbaum
- Praying Mantis, by Kenneth J. Stein, Ph.D.; andStare Case, by Alan Dorin
- Pure GFP, by Yang Hong; andLightForest: Hologram, by Betsy Connors
- Peeled Polymer Magnified, by Felice Frankel; andNanoFuture Space 6, by Alexa R.W. Smith
- Visible Human Female; andInterior Cartography No.9, by Tatiana Parcero
- Hydromantes shastae, by Randy Schmieder; andRat-King (Rattenkönig), by Katharina Fritsch
- Porphyra columbina, from The Protist Image Data Gallery; and Binary worms, by Jim Pallas
- Deoxyribonuclease I, from The Protein Data Bank; and Clip from a light sculpture, by Paul Freidlander
- Einstein through a bee's eye, by Andrew Giger; and Sequential Molecules, 1995, by Catherine Wagner
- Polio Virus, Type 1, by Jean-Yves Sgro; and Untitled, by Philip Pirolo
- Wildebeest, tamed, by Don Archer; and Creation Quantum, by Turtle Heart
- Genetic Movies, by John Mount; and Soomerschon, from The Tulip Book of P. Cos, 1637
- Taxol, by Michael W. Davidson; and Kindertotentanz: Chemotherapie, by David A. Haughton
- Butterfly Probiscis, by Dennis Kunkel; and Head of a Fuegian, by Conrad Martens
- Human Eosinophil, by James A. Sullivan; and Revival Field, by Mel Chin
- Insulin, by Manuel C. Peitsch and Jean-Luc Bodmer; and DNA Under Glass, by Eric Suchanek
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Feature 1
- It's a Bird! It's a Plane! . . . It's a Bat?, by Rabiya S. Tuma
- Gut Thoughts, by Maia Szalavitz
- Genetic Information and the Family, by Bartha Maria Knoppers
- Rusting from Within: The Dark Side of O2, by Pamela Weintraub
- Drawing a Spark from Darkness
John Walsh and Electric Fish, by Marco Piccolino and Marco Bresadola
- Mount St. Helens: Disobeying the Rules of Recovery, by Sharon Levy
- Community Consultation and Genetics Research, by Sanyin Siang
- Defining Danger: Risk Assessment, by Maia Szalavitz
- Navigating the Blue Desert: Coral Reef Fish, by Bob Beale
- Extinction, by Fred Powledge
- Mussels' Muscle, by Rabiya S. Tuma
- AIDS in Hiding: The Search for Latent Reservoirs, by Robert W. Wallace
- Bullants, by Bob Beale
- The Silent Assassins, by Scott G. Ewan
- Private Care, Public Health: Health Care and the Green Challenge, by Barbara deSouza MacMath
- Sex Matters: Gender-Based Medical Research, by Sanyin Siang
- School Crossings: Bio-X and Interdisciplinary Research, by Fran Smith
- The Problematic Placebo Effect, by Bob Roehr
- Xenotransplantation Gains Momentum, by Sanyin Siang
- Apoptosis, by Maia Szalavitz
- The Art of the Pipet, by Jay Martin
- Forecast for Tomorrow: Birds!, by Jay Withgott
- In the Wake of Thalidomide: Treating Morning Sickness, by Kirstie Saltsman
- Let's Hear It For Those Other Genomes!, by Jay Withgott
- Of Mice and Men: The POMC Controversy, by Maia Szalavitz
- Is Bacterial Infection Carcinogenic?, by Kirstie Saltsman
- Telomerase, Cancer, and Aging So Many Promises to Keep, by Jane Salodof MacNeil
- Mood Menders: New Research on Antidepressants, by Maia Szalavitz
- The Jungles and Deserts of Chromosomes, by Rabiya S. Tuma
- Drugs to Fight Drugs, by Maia Szalavitz
- West Nile Virus: Coming to a Neighborhood Near You?, by Daniel Edelstein
- U.S. Elects to Spend on Science, by Sanyin Siang
- Sex, Frogs, and Danger in the Loo: The 2000 Ig Nobel Prizes, by Karen Hopkin
- An Australian Approach to Conservation: Earth Sanctuaries Limited, by Rabiya S. Tuma
- A Conversation with Stephen Jay Gould, by Daniel Edelstein
- South Africa's Other Battle: AIDS, Drugs, and Clinical Trials, by Sanyin Siang
- DNA Banks: Noah's Ark at -200 °C, by Rabiya S. Tuma
- The Mismeasure of Woman: Women and Clinical Trials, by Sanyin Siang
- The Physician-Scientist: A Conversation with Leon Rosenberg, interviewed by Dorian Devins
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Feature 2
- Every Sperm Is Useful, by Henry Nicholls
- Restoring a Sustainable Countryside, by William J. Sutherland
- Michael Faraday: An Inspiration to All Scientists, by Raymond C. Rowe
- Pictures of the Mind: fMRI and Mood Disorders, by Rabiya S. Tuma
- Tick Menagerie: Microbes Shed Light on Chronic Lyme Disease, by Pamela Weintraub
- The Brownlash Rides Again: The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World, by Bjørn Lomborg; reviewed by Paul R. Ehrlich
- Artificiality Embodied: AI: Artificial Intelligence, by Adam Rutherford and Julian Ogilvie
- Poison with Potential: Puffer Fish, by Maia Szalavitz
- Improper Lab Partners: Conflicts of Interest, by Sanyin Siang
- Transcranial Stimulation, by Maia Szalavitz
- Back from the Brink: Cloning Endangered Species, by Pamela Weintraub
- Conjuring an Image of the Environment International Biodiversity Observation Year, by Fred Powledge
- Targeting Malaria, by Emma Patten-Hitt
- Boosting the Blood Bank, by Mike May
- Unbalanced New Spin on Ménière's Disease, by Maia Szalavitz
- X Marks the Sperm: A Clue to Infertility, by Mark L. Fuerst
- Biocomplexity: New Way to Do Science, or Just Another Buzzword?, by Fred Powledge
- Evolutionary Psychology, by Maia Szalavitz
- Global Giving: The Gates Foundation and Others, by Joel N. Shurkin
- Guarding the Galapagos, by Robert W. Wallace
- A Bug's Life, by Scott G. Ewan
- Money: The New Face of Ecology, by Rabiya S. Tuma
- Kansas Education Evolves, by Robert W. Wallace
- Flesh and Bones The Inside Story, by Toni Reed
- The New Collaboration: Vendors and Research, by Jay Martin
- Thinking Like a Chimp, by Rabiya S. Tuma
- Brain Food Opera, by Don Kater and Marc Abrahams
- New Developments, Ongoing Debate: The NIH Stem Cell Guidelines, by Sanyin Siang
- The Essence of a Sniff, by Marc Abrahams
- The 18th International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Alison Jordan and Laura Spinney
- The 18th International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Laura Spinney and Pete Moore
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2000: A Meeting of International Research Scholars, by Daniel Edelstein (with additional reporting by Lois Wingerson)
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Feature 3
- The Fall and Rise of in vivo Pharmacology, by the in vivo Pharmacology Training Group
- A Shrewd and Ethical Approach to Xenotransplantation, by Fritz H. Bach and Adrian J. Ivinson
- Talk to the People: Justifying Animal Experimentation, by Mark Matfield
- Who Owns Your Body?: Legal Issues on the Ownership of Bodily Material, by Loane Skene
- The Wedding Complex, Lyrics by Marc Abrahams
- Elephant Seals, by Sharon Levy
- Cells from Scratch, by Maia Szalavitz
- Singapore Thinks Big: Genomics and Beyond, by Lois Wingerson
- The Bitter Feud over LYMErix: Big Pharma Takes on the Wrong Little Osp, by Pamela Weintraub
- To Clone or Not to Clone?, by Sanyin Siang
- An Ocean of Changes Online, by Mike May
- Memory Pharmaceuticals: How a Nobelist's Work with Sea Slugs Will Help Us Treat Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Senility, and Down Syndrome, by Pamela Weintraub
- Public Policy and the Use of the Genome, by W.A. Thomasson
- An International Biodiversity Observation Year, by Diana Wall, Harold Mooney, Gina Adams, Geoffrey Boxshall, Andy Dobson, Tohru Nakashizuka, James Seyani, Cristián Samper and José Sarukhán
- European Life Scientist Organization: BioMedNet Conference Reporter, by Melissa Mertl and Stuart Blackman
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Feature 4
- Toxic Heavy Metals and Undeclared Drugs in Asian Herbal Medicines, by Edzard Ernst
- The Use of Biological Indicating Organisms in the Assessment of Contaminated Land, by Paul Board
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Feature 5
- The Worm in Us: Caenorhabditis elegans Models of Human Diseases, by Edzard Ernst
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Feature 6
- The Power of Prayer, by Gavin E. Jarvis
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Feature 7
- Future Prospects for Vaccines to Control Fertility, by Peter J. Delves, Torben Lund, and
Ivan M. Roitt
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Feature 8
- The Heart of the Marrow: Silviu Itescu, by Vicki Brower
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Trends Preview 1
- Indian Plant Biology Enters the Biotechnology Era, by Nandula Raghuram
- Cortisol, 11β-hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Type 1 and Central Obesity, by Paul M. Stewart and Jeremy W. Tomlinson
- Just Say NO to Muscle Degeneration?, by Stanley C. Froehner
- Antidotes, by William A. Jackson
- Immunity and Retroviral Superantigens in Humans, by David L. Woodland
- Separase: A Conserved Protease Separating More than Just Sisters, by Karen E. Ross and Orna Cohen-Fix
- Ceramide: Does it Matter for T Cells?, by Dieter Adam, Michael Heinrich, Dieter Kabelitz, and Stefan Schütze
- A Serum Prolactin-binding Protein: Implications for Growth Hormone, by Priscilla S. Dannies
- Microarrays Go Live: New Prospects for Proteomics, by Blagoy Blagoev and Akhilesh Pandey
- Genome-based Analysis of Pneumococcal Virulence Factors: The Quest for Novel Vaccine Antigens and Drug Targets, by James C. Paton and Philippe Giammarinaro
- A Novel View of the Function of Pituitary Folliculo-stellate Cell Network, by Stanko S. Stojilkovic
- Future Shock: Forecasting a Grim Fate for the Earth, by William F. Laurance
- Oranges and Lemons: Clues to the Taxonomy of Citrus from Molecular Markers, by Gloria A. Moore
- Reconstructing the Skeleton Using Intermittent Parathyroid Hormone, by Ego Seeman and Pierre D. Delmas
- Cytokines and Sickness Behavior: Implications from Knockout Animal Models, by Akio Inui
- Lymphocyte-Mediated Immunosurveillance of Epithelial Cancers?, by Mark J. Smyth and Joseph A. Trapani
- Borna Disease Virus and Neuropsychiatric Disease: A Reappraisal, by W. Ian Lipkin, Mady Hornig, and Thomas Briese
- Brave New World of PostGenomics!, by Alan H. Fairlamb
- Fit but Rare?: The Pros and Cons of Being a Virulent Pathogen, by Christopher Dye
- Computational Cell Biologists Snowed in at Cranwell, by John H. Carson, Ann Cowan and Leslie M. Loew
- Antibiotic-free Chloroplast Genetic Engineering: An Environmentally Friendly Approach, by Henry Daniell, Peter O. Wiebe and Alicia Fernandez-San Millan
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Trends Preview 2
- The Golgi Apparatus: Going Round in Circles?, by Francis A. Barr
- Putting Language Genes in Perspective, by Dorothy V.M. Bishop
- Changing Mates, by André A. Dhondt
- Dosage Compensation: Do Birds Do It as Well?, by Hans Ellegren
- Agrobacterium VirE2 Gets the VIP1 Treatment in Plant Nuclear Import, by Doyle V. Ward, John R. Zupan and Patricia C. Zambryski
- Peering into Early Neurogenesis with Embryonic Stem Cells, by Hai-Qing Xian and David I. Gottlieb
- Triumph or Travesty?: The Triumph of Sociobiology, by John Alcock; reviewed by Steven Rose
- Immunity against Prions?, by Frank L. Heppner, Isabelle Arrighi, Ulrich Kalinke and Adriano Aguzzi
- How Common is Heterodichogamy?, by Susanne S. Renner
- Gene Patents: Socially Acceptable Monopolies or an Unnecessary Hindrance to Research?, by Alan R. Williamson
- T-cell Vaccination: From Basics to the Clinic, by Vipin Kumar, Eli Sercarz, Jingwu Zhang and Irun Cohen
- Ubiquitin: More Than Just a Signal for Protein Degradation, by Cezary Wojcik
- Viewing Odors in the Mushroom Body of the Fly, by John R. Carlson
- Packaged Merozoite Release Without Immediate Host Cell Lysis, by Virgilio L. Lew
- Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus: Cause of the Recent Crisis for the UK Livestock Industry, by Alan R. Samuel and Nick J. Knowles
- Targeting Detoxification Pathways: An Efficient Approach to Obtain Plants with Multiple Stress Tolerance?, by Dorothea Bartels
- The Hippocampal Complex and Long-Term Memory Revisited, by Lynn Nadel and Morris Moscovitch
- An Old Epithelial Cell Never Dies: It Just Agonesces Away, by Charles V. Clevenger
- Now I Know My CpGs, by Arthur M. Krieg
- Kinase Chips Hit the Proteomics Era, by Daniel M. Williams and Philip A. Cole
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Trends Preview 3
- Applications of Flow Cytometry to Ecotoxicity Testing Using Microalgae, by Jennifer L. Stauber, Natasha M. Franklin and Merrin S. Adams
- Irresistible Force Meets Immovable Object: SNP Mapping of Complex Diseases, by Christopher Lee
- Gene Targeting Comes to Top-Down Drug Screens, by John M. Sedivy
- Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease: Overlapping or Synergistic Pathologies?, by Pascal Kurosinski, Mathias Guggisberg and Jürgen Götz
- Taxonomic Chauvinism, by Xavier Bonnet, Richard Shine and Olivier Lourdais
- Honey, I've Shrunk Biomedical Technology!, by Suzanne Berry
- Why Are Some People Bitten More than Others?, by David W. Kelly
- Transgenic Plants for Vaccine Production: Expectations and Limitations, by Daniel Chargelegue, Patricia Obregon and Pascal M.W. Drake
- Look and Feel, by Patrick Haggard
- Genetic Research on the U.K. Population: Do New Principles Need to be Developed?, by Jane Kaye
- The New Era of Toxicology, by Ricarda Thier and Hermann M. Bolt
- Plant Microtubule-associated Proteins: The HEAT is Off in Temperature-Sensitive mor1, by Yves V. Brun
- Global Analysis of a Bacterial Cell Cycle: Tracking Down Necessary Functions and Their Regulators, by Yves V. Brun
- Do Plants Have More Genes Than Humans?: Yes, When It Comes to ABC Proteins, by Rocío Sánchez-Fernández and Philip A. Rea
- Neurosteroids and Brain Sexual Differentiation, by Barney A. Schlinger, Kiran K. Soma and Sarah E. London
- Genes and Subtypes of Schizophrenia, by Károly Mirnics and David A. Lewis
- Neuroscience in the Post-Genome Era: An Overview, by Christopher A. Walsh
- Atherosclerosis: An Infectious, Inflammatory and Autoimmune Disease, by Yehuda Shoenfeld, Yaniv Sherer and Dror Harats
- If You Would Live Long, Choose Your Parents Well, by Amandine Cournil and Thomas B.L. Kirkwood
- Engineering Human Chromosomes for Gene Therapy Studies, by K.H. Andy Choo
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Trends Preview 4
- Does Pet Helminth Prophylaxis Increase the Rate of Selection for Drug Resistance?, by R. C. Andrew Thompson and Mick G. Roberts
- Feedback Connections and Conscious Vision, by Jean Bullier
- Nicotinic Receptors in Wonderland, by Thomas Grutter and Jean-Pierre Changeux
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- Cori Dantini
- Alexandria Heather
- Caleb Brown
- Ross T. Smart
- Julia Kuhl
- Michelle Flynn
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