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Brain Science Breakthrough
Every so often, new scientific discoveries can challenge established principles and change the way we think about the world.
Using the Body to Fight Cancer
In the fight against cancer, harnessing the natural defense mechanisms within the human body is gaining promise. Termed cancer immunotherapy...
The Morning After: Science in a Trump Administration
If you were to ride the D.C. metro the morning after the election, you would have been overwhelmed with a...
Diet Against Disease
“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are,” Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1826. What you consume...
Increasing Brain Tumor Survival
Nearly 73,000 adults will be diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2016, and for more than one third, their tumor...
What is Science Policy?
As a member of the Science Policy Group, people frequently ask me what science policy entails. This is a difficult...
Finding the Fountain of Youth
For thousands of years, explorers, adventurers, and conquerors have searched for the “fountain of youth,” a magical spring that grants...
Solving the Mystery of Genomic 'Dark Matter'
In human cells, three billion base pairs arrange themselves into sequences of As, Ts, Gs, and Cs to form genes...
End of Zika in Sight?
With the successful creation of DNA vaccines that elicited immune protection from Zika infection, hope is on the rise in...
Suffering from Slow Science Publishing
Information is instant. I remember the moment when this fact of the digital age was made unequivocally clear to me...