Category: Science and Society
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Ten minutes with…Leslie Vosshall
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Fernando Bejarano Last year, gender inequality in science hit the headlines of numerous major scientific journals. Several remarks…
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Twenty-four visits to Stockholm: a concise history of the Rockefeller Nobel Prizes
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Part XXII: Roderick MacKinnon, 2003 Prize in Chemistry Joseph Luna In the early 1950s, two English physiologists named…
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How the approval of the “Against Mass Immigration” initiative threatens science in Switzerland
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Juliette Wipf Over the last decade, nationalist and anti-immigration parties have gained voters throughout Europe (Front National, Golden…
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Twenty-four visits to Stockholm: a concise history of the Rockefeller Nobel Prizes
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Part XXI: Paul Nurse, 2001 Prize in Physiology or Medicine Joseph Luna All cells, in the end, are…
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NYU’s “Street Science” Aims to Bridge the Gap Between STEM Fields and the Younger Generation
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Johannes Buheitel “Cool” and “Awesome” are just two of many joyous exclamations I hear while I am trying…
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All Aboard the BioBus
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Aileen Marshall What were your science laboratory classes like when you were in grade school or high school?…
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The price of mistakes in clinical trials
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By Guadalupe Astorga Last January 11, a human clinical trial in phase I caused brain death in one…
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Twenty-four visits to Stockholm: a concise history of the Rockefeller Nobel Prizes
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Part XIX: Günter Blobel, 1999 Prize in Physiology or Medicine By Joseph Luna Let’s start with a fantastical…
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The Lowline
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By Aileen Marshall Have you heard of the Lowline? No? Well maybe because it doesn’t fully exist yet.…
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Twenty-four visits to Stockholm: a concise history of the Rockefeller Nobel Prizes.
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Part XVIII: Robert Bruce Merrifield, 1984 Prize in Chemistry By Joseph Luna By the time Bruce Merrifield sat…