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"The Strangest Man" of Science
Award-winning writer and physicist Graham Farmelo talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky [ pictured ] about The Strangest Man, Farmelo's biography of Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Paul Dirac. [More]
Jamaica turns over alleged drug lord to U.S.
Congress OKs sanctions on Iran's energy, banks
Oil-spill health risks under scrutiny
By Amanda Mascarelli
A plethora of health problems from exposure to chemicals threatens workers and volunteers involved in clean-up efforts for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. [More]
Making lungs in the lab
By Alla Katsnelson
Biomedical engineers have built many types of human organs in the lab, but they've lagged on lung tissue--until now. [More]
Submerging Supreme: ROV Competition Preps Students for Future Deepwater Engineering [Slide Show]
From the beginning of the Deepwater Horizon crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) have been responsible for carrying out every attempt to stop the flow of oil, and their mixed record of success--installing lower marine riser package (LMRP) cap on June 3 but damaging the gas venting system on June 23, for example--reflects just how difficult is it to operate more than a mile below the surface. [More]
Vaccines Derived from Patients' Tumor Cells Are Individualizing Cancer Treatment
The first discovery of a cancer gene marker--the BRAF oncogene for melanoma and colorectal malignancies--back in 2002 changed the way many researchers thought about cancer treatment. Rather than approach the disease based on what region of the body it stemmed from, scientists began to identify cancers in terms of their genetic signatures. Researchers now recognize more than 200 kinds of cancer--all genetically unique. [More]
Floods slam Midwest, officials assess damage
Senate OKs new sanctions on Iran's energy, banks
Personalized Medicine in the Genomic Era
Vaccinomics: Scientists Are Devising Your Personal Vaccine
Our bodies defeat infections in part because our immune system's genes are many and diverse. This genetic heterogeneity, however, has a downside: it means that we each respond differently to vaccines. For example, compared with women men routinely produce fewer pathogen-fighting antibodies after vaccination, and in the last large U.S. measles outbreak in 1989 10 percent of previously vaccinated children were not protected . But these limitations could one day be overcome thanks to a push to replace one-size-fits-all vaccines with genetically "personalized" immunizations that are safe and effective for everyone. [More]
Defense Experts Press for Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Climate Change
Tell us what you don't know.
That's the message military and national security experts gathered here want to send to climate scientists.
[More]Obama says U.S. will support Russia's WTO bid
Canada police halt suspicious car near G20 summit site
Jamaica turns over alleged drug lord to U.S.
U.S. court won't keep secret gay marriage opponents
Holders Italy make exit, Japan go through
Whales face new threats deadlier than whaling
By Tom Pfeiffer
AGADIR, Morocco (Reuters) - More whales are being killed by chemical and noise pollution, entanglement in nets, climate change or collisions with ships than by whaling itself, delegates to the world's main whaling body said this week.
[More]Supreme Court imperils Skilling, Black convictions
