RootsStirring rods, funnels, a balance, pipets, and test tubes beckon from a counter. Boxes of common kitchen ingredients, including gummy bears, corn starch, and giant wooden spoons line other shelves. Well-loved graduated cylinders and beakers wait their turn,...
Controlling Growth FactorsWho you are is largely dictated by a group of biochemicals called growth factor proteins. Growth factors orchestrate embryological development, guide our maturation from infant to adulthood, regulate immune function, direct the ever-changing...
In a familiar classroom scene, lab partners take turns squinting into a microscope. They spy a wriggling paramecium, if the organism doesn’t swim away from the field of view. These days they also peer into an iPad to watch videos and access digital textbooks....
John Mullan closed the last link of the Northwest Passage and vanished from history–until now.ON A MAY MORNING IN 1858, along a small creek on the northern edge of the Palouse, hundreds of warriors from several Inland Northwest Indian tribes closed in on 160...
For more than half a century, West Nile virus was someone else’s problem.The mosquito-borne pathogen was first isolated from a feverish human in 1937 in northern Uganda’s West Nile district. It then lay low for a decade before emerging in an actual...
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