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RETURN OF SWINE FLU, THE

THE BIG QUESTION: HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL IT INFECT THIS YEAR? Flu season in the Southern Hemisphere is almost over- and now it's heading back our...
Popular Science, 10/01/09 by Wenner, Melinda · More from publication
Children of the corn

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If the specter of obesity and diabetes wasn't enough to turn you off high-fructose corn syrup...
Mother Jones, 07/01/09 by Melinda Wenner · More from publication
COLD RELIEF

TWO PHILADELPHIA DOCTORS ARE CHAMPIONING AN UNCONVENTIONAL NEW TREATMENT FOR KEEPING CARDIAC-ARREST VICTIMS ALIVE, WITH AS LITTLE BRAIN DAMAGE AS...
Popular Science, 02/01/09 by Wenner, Melinda · More from publication
DRUG PUMPER, THE

IMPLANTABLE MACHINES He builds under-the-skin chips that deliver drugs straight into the blood WHEN HE WAS 12, John Santini s ankle swelled up...
Popular Science, 11/01/08 by Wenner, Melinda · More from publication
INFANT'S PHILOSOPHER, THE

SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE She studies how our brains create accurate representations of the world IN A SHALL ROOM on the second floor of the Boston...
Popular Science, 11/01/08 by Wenner, Melinda · More from publication
BOND BREAKER, THE

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY She's invented a way to build exactly the right molecule for the job WHY ARE THERE so many diseases and so few cures? It's...
Popular Science, 11/01/08 by Wenner, Melinda · More from publication

NEW GENETICS, THE

88 WORDS ON... The latest science on how your cells make you who you are EPIGENETICS is the idea that, contrary to decades of genetic theory,...
Popular Science, 10/01/08 by Wenner, Melinda · More from publication
MAKING STEM CELLS FROM SKIN

THE 60-SECOND GUIDE How scientists may have thwarted the controversy EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS, which can be coaxed to turn into any kind of cell...
Popular Science, 10/01/08 by Wenner, Melinda · More from publication
FIVE DISEASES YOU SHOULD WORRY ABOUT, THE

A primer to the next population-threatening pandemic LAST MAY, scientists met in Geneva, Switzerland, to update the World Health Organization's...
Popular Science, 10/01/08 by Wenner, Melinda · More from publication
DRUG RESURRECTOR, THE

WHATS THE BIG IDEA? One pharmacologist's mission to recycle blockbuster drugs into treatments for neglected diseases WITH BIG PHARMA SPENDING...
Popular Science, 05/01/08 by Wenner, Melinda · More from publication

RETURN OF SWINE FLU, THE