48. Inspiring Achievement

48. Inspiring Achievement

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,...
32. The Innovators: Designing Medicine’s Holy Grail

32. The Innovators: Designing Medicine’s Holy Grail

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...
35. Lost Highway

35. Lost Highway

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...
36. Charting the Course of a Globe-Trotting Pathogen

36. Charting the Course of a Globe-Trotting Pathogen

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...