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The Next Phage

By Elizabeth Svoboda

/ Mar 31, 2009

Micro-worms to the Rescue?

By Susannah Locke

/ Mar 9, 2009

Hunting The Elusive Fat Pill

By Eric Hagerman

/ Feb 19, 2009

A Llama Could Save Your Life

By Catherine Schwanke

/ Feb 19, 2009

HIV Resistance Through Oral Sex?

By Julia Wallace

/ Feb 18, 2009

You Want to Put What Where?

By Isadora Botwinick

/ Feb 18, 2009

Cannibal Bacteria Kills Siblings

By Brooke Borel

/ Feb 5, 2009

Kidney Donation: Less Painful than Childbirth

By Christine Cyr

/ Feb 4, 2009

Freezing the heart to save the life

By Melinda Wenner Moyer

/ Jan 27, 2009

Steve Jobs, Sir … May I Take Your Pulse?

By Jeremy Hsu

/ Jan 21, 2009

Staying Healthy Never Felt So Good

By Kristin Haraldsdottir

/ Jan 21, 2009

Ack, Baby Seals at CES!

By Abby Seiff

/ Jan 9, 2009

Seven Little Piggies Make History

By SciIll Staff

/ Dec 10, 2008

Foreskin for Clear Skin?

By Julia Wallace

/ Nov 22, 2008

Scratch That Itch

By M. Farbman

/ Nov 19, 2008

Discovery of a “Transsexual Gene” Raises More Questions Than Answers

By Julia Wallace

/ Nov 18, 2008

A Cure for AIDS

By Julia Wallace

/ Nov 15, 2008

The Bond Breaker

By Melinda Wenner Moyer

/ Oct 22, 2008

Curing Disease or Playing God: Obama and McCain on Genetics Research

By Stuart Fox

/ Oct 13, 2008

This Week In Sex

By Julia Wallace

/ Oct 13, 2008

A Little Off the Top, S’Il Vous Plait

By Isadora Botwinick

/ Oct 2, 2008

Ghost Heart

By Elizabeth Svoboda

/ Sep 23, 2008

The Latest Man-Made Organs

By Elizabeth Svoboda

/ Sep 17, 2008

Learning From the Dead

By Melinda Dodd

/ Sep 17, 2008

Special Operations

By Isadora Botwinick

/ Sep 10, 2008

Of Brain Disease and Belly Ache

By Isadora Botwinick

/ Aug 29, 2008

This Pill Will Change Your Life

By Stuart Fox

/ Aug 26, 2008

Juice Destroys Drug Efficacy

By Holly Otterbein

/ Aug 22, 2008

The Cold Catches a Cold

By Stuart Fox

/ Aug 7, 2008

From Skin Cell to Neuron

By Stuart Fox

/ Aug 5, 2008

How Ritalin Works

By Holly Otterbein

/ Jul 11, 2008

Gold, DNA Mix Could Result in Biological Nano Spies

By Jaya Jiwatram

/ Jul 8, 2008

Mom Lights Up When Her Baby Smiles

By Laura Allen

/ Jul 8, 2008

Rebuilding the Troops

By Amanda Schupak

/ Jun 25, 2008

Saving More Lives by Building a Better Scanner

By Michael Rosenwald

/ Jun 20, 2008

Eat (Chocolate), Drink (Coffee) and be Merry

By Holly Otterbein

/ Jun 17, 2008

First Video of a Virus Being Born

By Matt Ransford

/ Jun 4, 2008

Bunk Beds Declared Dangerous!

By Laura Allen

/ Jun 4, 2008

Artificial Bladders Pass More Early Tests

By Gregory Mone

/ May 20, 2008

The Next Two Decades

By Gregory Mone

/ May 13, 2008

Man Regenerates Finger

By Matt Ransford

/ May 1, 2008

Have You Taken Your Meds?

By Gregory Mone

/ Apr 23, 2008

Monitoring Soldiers’ Brains in the Field

By Gregory Mone

/ Apr 18, 2008

No More Blind Spots

By Corey Binns

/ Apr 1, 2008

CPR or Bust

By Matt Ransford

/ Apr 1, 2008

Factory Farming and its Dire Consequences

By Matt Ransford

/ Mar 26, 2008

How It Works: The Endoscope Camera in a Pill

By Gregory Mone

/ Mar 14, 2008

Saving Bees with Metagenomics

By Matt Ransford

/ Feb 27, 2008

Get Your Sci-Tech Election On

By Nicole Dyer

/ Feb 15, 2008

Vaccinations at a Tattoo Parlor

By Gregory Mone

/ Feb 7, 2008

Stem Cell Breakthrough

By Gregory Mone

/ Nov 21, 2007

Can a Virus Make You Fat?

By Dawn Stover

/ Aug 20, 2007

Shock to the System

By Gregory Mone

/ Jan 11, 2007

Flab in the Lab

By Eric Mika

/ Dec 1, 2006

Better Than Blood?

By Nicole Davis

/ Nov 1, 2006

In 2021 You’ll Grow a New Heart

By Elizabeth Svoboda

/ Jun 1, 2006

Better . . . Stronger . . . Faster . . .

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/ Sep 8, 2005

Artificial Wombs

By Gretchen Reynolds

/ Aug 1, 2005

Can We Cure Everything?

By Dawn Stover

/ Aug 1, 2005

Pharming Underground

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/ Jun 10, 2005

Seven Deadly Sins

By Joseph Hooper

/ Jan 2, 2005

Baby, Baby, Ban

By Gunjan Sinha

/ Jun 15, 2002

Raisin’ Hair

By Charles Hirshberg

/ Dec 14, 2001

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