[Originally published in Synapse on September 17, 1998.] Research leading to treatments of Alzheimer’s disease, stroke and HIV-associated dementia will be the focus of UCSF’s new Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, which was inaugurated with a symposium.
Humans have been developing genetically-modified organisms for millennia through the process of artificial selection—human-directed selective breeding—of plants and animals for...
