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The Flavor of Serendipity

Gary K. Beauchamp

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Glow-in-the-Dark Vampire Bats Could Help Curtail Rabies

Gabriela Serrato Marks

Biology Medicine Ecology Spotlight

Midcentury Orthodontia

Biology Evolution Medicine Anatomy Letters To The Editor

Learning to Diagnose

Anthropology Medicine Letters To The Editor

Perinatal Depression and Precision Psychiatry

Robert Frederick

Medicine Psychology Physiology From The Staff

Beyond Genetics

Robert Frederick

Biology Medicine Genetics Physiology From The Staff

The Root of Misaligned Jaws

Sandra Kahn, Paul R. Ehrlich

Biology Evolution Medicine Anatomy

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Pill Organizers as Organized Design

Henry Petroski

Engineering Medicine Engineering

Eliminating Sex Bias in Biomedical and Clinical Research

Robert Frederick

Biology Medicine From The Staff

Tumbling Microrobots for Future Medicine

David J. Cappelleri, Chenghao Bi, Maria Guix Noguera

Engineering Medicine Technology Technologue

In Search of Your Inner Bat

Michael S. A. Graziano

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The Evolution of the Nursing Home

Muriel R. Gillick

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Is Drug Addiction a Brain Disease?

Marc Grifell, Carl L. Hart

Medicine Policy Psychology Social Science

Origami-inspired Medical Implants

Fenella Saunders

Engineering Medicine Sightings

Follow the Evidence

Fenella Saunders

Biology Evolution Medicine Psychology From The Editor

Neuroscience as Neuroart

Dianne Timblin

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Down Syndrome, the Immune System Disorder

Katie L. Burke

Evolution Medicine Genetics Spotlight

Progress Against Viruses in Animal Reservoirs

Robert Frederick

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Seeing the Heart's Power

Robert Frederick

Biology Medicine Technology Anatomy Sightings

Understanding the CRISPR Craze

Robert Frederick

Agriculture Biology Chemistry Engineering Medicine Technology Cytology Genetics From The Staff

Structural Support for Damaged Tissue Repair

Treena Livingston Arinzeh, Jennifer Moy, Gloria Portocarrero Huang

Biology Medicine Technology Anatomy

Metformin Approval

Biology Chemistry Medicine Letters To The Editor

The Two Faces of Nanotechnology

Omowunmi "Wunmi" Sadik

Medicine Technology Technologue

An Illness Observed: A Conversation with Julie Rehmeyer

Dianne Timblin

Biology Medicine Physiology Scientists Nightstand Books

Bio-Responsive Smart Drug Delivery

Fenella Saunders

Biology Medicine Technology From The Staff

Metformin: Out of Backwaters and into the Mainstream

Philip A. Rea, Anderson Y. Tien

Biology Chemistry Medicine Policy

Blood, Guts, and Hope

Carl M. Schoellhammer, Robert Samuel Langer, Carlo Giovanni Traverso

Biology Medicine

Cancer Chemotherapy During Pregnancy

Robert Frederick

Chemistry Ethics Medicine Policy Reproduction From The Staff

Mosquito Vectors of Zika

Biology Medicine Letters To The Editor

Harnessing the Web to Track the Next Outbreak

Aranka Anema, Carly R. Winokur, Chi Bahk, Sumiko Mekaru, Nicholas Preston, John S. Brownstein

Medicine Technology Anthropogeography Human Ecology

First Person: Herman O. Sintim

Fenella Saunders

Biology Chemistry Medicine Microbiology Spotlight

Colonial Vaxxers

Ryan Seals

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Zika Goes Viral

Robert Dorit

Environment Medicine Sociology Perspective

Tugging at Hearts

Robert Frederick

Biology Evolution Medicine Anatomy Sightings

Testing the Toxicity of Black Cohosh

Robert Frederick

Chemistry Medicine From The Staff

New Brain Insights from Cochlear Implants

Michael Dorman

Biology Medicine Technology The Long View

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Biology Computer Medicine Spotlight

Using Computing to Advance Toxicology

Robert Frederick

Biology Chemistry Computer Medicine Technology From The Staff

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Biology Communications Medicine Physics Archaeology Spotlight

Big Data and the Individual Patient

Sandra J. Ackerman

Biology Medicine Genetics From The Staff

Mistrust, Metaphor, and Medicine

Katie L. Burke

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Carbon Nanotubes Deliver in Medicine

Khuloud T. Al-Jamal

Medicine

Thoroughly Modern Microbes

Margaret Clark

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When the Cause of Stroke Is Cryptic

David Kent, David Thaler

Medicine

Journeys to the Brink

Ram Ramabhadran

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What Everyone Should Know about Statistical Correlation

Vladica Velickovic

Ethics Medicine Statistics Ethics

Why Is It So Hard to Stop Sports Concussions?

Stephen Piazza

Medicine Physics Psychology Technology Technologue

Preventing Spread of an Avian Influenza Strain as an Army Veterinarian

Katie L. Burke, Katie-Leigh Virginia Corder

Biology Medicine Human Ecology Virology From The Staff

Precision Medicine Takes Aim at Cancer

Sandra J. Ackerman

Biology Medicine Spotlight

"The Sight That Met Us Was Shocking"

Dianne Timblin

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Engineered Molecules for Smarter Medicines

Darlene K. Taylor, Uddhav Balami

Medicine Technology

First Person: Exploring the Unconscious Brain

Sandra J. Ackerman

Medicine Spotlight

How to Fight Back Against Antibiotic Resistance

Gautam Dantas, Morten O. A. Sommer

Evolution Medicine

One Family's Search to Explain a Fatal Neurological Disorder

Nissa Mollema, Harry Orr

Biology Medicine

Slipping Past Cancer's Barriers

Mauro Ferrari

Engineering Medicine Technology Technologue

Night Shift Belly

Jenny Jennings Foerst

Medicine Physiology Science Observer

The Silver Lining

Fenella Saunders

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Stents to Prevent Stroke

Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz

Medicine Technology

Alzheimer's Disease: The Great Morbidity of the 21st Century

Charles T. Ambrose

Medicine

Athletics and Herbal Supplements

David Senchina

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Series of Milestones

Fenella Saunders

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Doctors Wanted: No Women Need Apply and The Hidden Malpractice

Elizabeth C. Patterson

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Aquatic Invasive Species: Lessons from Cancer Research

Adam Joel Sepulveda, Andrew Ray, Robert Al-Chokhachy, Clint Muhlfeld, Robert Gresswell, Jackson Gross, Jeff Kershner

Environment Medicine Animal Behavior Zoology

Civil Liberties and the War on Smallpox

Ryan Seals

Medicine Policy Books

The Geography of Illness

Christopher Hamlin

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Porphyria Perspective

Biology Chemistry Medicine Letters To The Editor

A Climate of Ill Health

Noel Castree

Environment Medicine Human Ecology Books

A Walk in the Woods

Anna Lena Phillips

Biology Medicine Psychology Science Observer

River Blindness: An Old Foe

Biology Medicine Virology Letters To The Editor

Cancer Progress for Whom?

Medicine Letters To The Editor

Rationally Engineering Chemo

Morgan Ryan

Chemistry Engineering Medicine Science Observer

Zeroing in on Cancer

Carlos F. Amabile-Cuevas

Biology Medicine Virology Macroscope

Inspiring Art and Science

Art Medicine Letters To The Editor

Ivermectin and River Blindness

Philip A. Rea, Vivian Zhang, Yelena S. Baras

Ethics Medicine Policy

Finding Alzheimer's Disease

Ralf Dahm

Biology Medicine

Just-as-good Medicine

David Kent

Economics Medicine Macroscope

Help, Harm and Human Subjects

Sheldon Krimsky

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A Little Context, Please

Biology Medicine Microbiology Letters To The Editor

Mitochondrial Death Channels

Keith A. Webster

Biology Medicine Cytology

Did Mercury Harm Darwin?

Chemistry Medicine Letters To The Editor

Darwin's Enigmatic Health

Keith Thomson

Medicine Marginalia

Seeking Heat

Biology Medicine Letters To The Editor

The Blue Baby Syndromes

Roger P. Smith

Biology Environment Medicine Macroscope

Healing Heat: Harnessing Infection to Fight Cancer

Uwe Hobohm

Biology Medicine Immunology

In the Land of Plenty

Robert Dorit

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Listening to Resveratrol

David Kent

Biology Medicine Macroscope

Statins: From Fungus to Pharma

Philip A. Rea

Biology Chemistry Medicine Botany

Choosing One's Battles

Barry Castleman

Environment Medicine Review Scientists Nightstand Books

The Neglected Side of Parkinson's Disease

Ted L. Rothstein, C. Warren Olanow

Biology Medicine

For a Few Atoms More

Roald Hoffmann

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The AIDS Industry in Africa

Robert Dorit

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Salivary Diagnostics

David T.W. Wong

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Brave New Worlds

Robert Dorit

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Dogs, Genes and Drugs

Evolution Medicine Genetics Letters To The Editor

Our Bodies, Our Selves

Susan M. Squier

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Two Tales of a City

Christopher Hamlin

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By Any Other Name

Robert Dorit

Communications Medicine Marginalia

Picturing to Learn

Felice Frankel

Art Communications Medicine Sightings

Why We Develop Food Allergies

Per Brandtzaeg

Biology Environment Evolution Medicine Microbiology

When Averages Hide Individual Differences in Clinical Trials

David Kent, Rodney Hayward

Medicine Statistics