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The Memory of Coral Microbiomes
Did you know that coral reefs are living organisms? |
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Aging is for Everyone
How old are you? This is a seemingly simple question. |
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The Reading Brain
Did you know that there are an estimated 7,000 languages spoken by humans around the world? |
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Improving Vaccines for Malaria
Did you know that in 2021 nearly half of the world?s population was at risk for malaria? |
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Your Adolescent Brain
Adolescence is a critical phase of life typically marked by the physical changes... |
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Seeing Clearly with Diabetes
Did you know that the corneas of the eye are the organs with the greatest number of nerves in the body? |
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Watch Your Body Composition
According to the World Health Organization, obesity has reached epidemic proportions, with an estimated 4 million people dying each year as a result. |
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Oh the Memories…
Making memories involves three distinct but overlapping steps: acquisitio, consolidatio, and retrieval. |
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The Smell of Stress
According to the American Veterinary Association, over one-third of American households include a pet dog. |
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The Wonders of Walking
One of the distinguishing characteristics of the human species is our ability to move around on two—not four—limbs. |
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Your Environment, Stress, and Your Health
According to the American Psychological Association (APA), a growing number of... |
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On The Nose
Have you ever wondered why we tend to get sicker in cold weather? |
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What Your Teeth Know
Did you know that your teeth are the strongest part of your body? |
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Harnessing the Power of Sound
What comes to mind when you think of cancer treatment? |
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Allergies and Asthma in a Changing Climate
Did you know that about 90 percent of children with asthma also have allergies? |
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| 11.22 |
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Stressed Out Mitochondria
Did you know that over 90% of the oxygen we breathe is used by the mitochondria in our cells? |
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Sweet Safety
Did you know that the average child in the United States consumes over 65 pounds of sugar each year? That’s enough sugar to fill a bathtub... |
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Location, Location, Location
Acral melanoma is a rare form of melanoma that typically affects the palms of the hands, soles of the feet, and nailbeds... |
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How to Program Stem Cells
According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 37 million Americans have been diagnosed with diabetes... |
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How to Stop a Cytokine Storm
The Yangtze River is the largest river in Asia, beginning in the Tanggula Mountains of Tibet and flowing nearly 4,000 miles to the East China Sea. |
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Cancer and the Immune System
The immune system 1 is made up of a network of cells, tissues, and organs that work together to neutralize any foreign agents that might enter the body. |
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Medicine of the Soil
Did you know that most antibiotics you might be prescribed by the doctor were invented by bacteria in the soil? |
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Clinical Trials Ensure COVID-19 Vaccines are Safe and Effective
Clinical trials are conducted to ensure treatments and vaccines are safe and effective. |
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Treat Your Muscles to a Massages
Massage can do more than just feel good – it can actually help muscles heal faster. |
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| 12.21 |
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Eat Your Vegetables
How many servings of vegetables do you eat per day? |
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| 11.21 |
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Scratching the Surface of Why We Itch
Itchiness, like pain, is an important survival mechanism that alerts our brains to something off or abnormal in the immediate environment surrounding the skin. |
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Blood Markers for Mood Disorders
How are you feeling right now? Are you happy or sad? |
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Understanding Decision Making
Imagine you want a snack at school and walk over to the vending machine. |
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Polluting—and Protecting—Our Brains
Imagine that all 11-year-old children in the entire country are called |
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Turning Thought into Action
Have you ever wondered how your thoughts become actions? |
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Hydrate for Health
How much water do you drink each day? |
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| 03.21 |
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Gene Detectives
Did you know that our bodies produce about two billion mitochondria every second? |
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The Double Life of Salmonella
Curli protein |
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The Dimensions of Your Heart
Creating the first three-dimensional (3D) heart model |
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| 12.20 |
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Finding the Origins of COVID-19
Visualizing the spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2 |
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| 11.20 |
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What's in Your Closet?
Entrepreneurs developed a natural and organic vegan leather using the nopal cactus |
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| 10.20 |
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How to Chew Your Medicine
What's your favorite flavor of chewing gum? |
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Antibiotic Evasion: The Biology of Avoidance
Did you know that the human body contains about 10,000 distinct species of bacteria? |
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Curing Sickle Cell Disease
Did you know that the human genome contains 20-25 thousand genes? |
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The Three Hands of Cigarette Smoke
By now, you have probably learned in health class that smoking cigarettes... |
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Creating a Vaccine Template
Are all your immunizations up to date? Did you receive the flu vaccine this year? |
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The Repressilator 2.0 and Your Gut
According to recent studies, there are over 2,000 species of microorganisms that... |
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Breathe in Health
Did you know that air quality can affect your health? |
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Outsmarting Infections
Across the globe, the widespread use of antibiotics has led to... |
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| 12.19 |
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How Heavy is Your Backpack?
What do you carry with you to school each day? |
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| 11.19 |
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Mighty Muscles
Have you ever noticed the writing on milk cartons... |
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Atomic Sandwich
Water is wet. |
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Providing Energy for Neurons
Did you know that there are around 200 different types of cells in your body? |
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Heal the Burn
Did you know that the skin is the largest organ in your body? |
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| 05.19 |
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The Air We Breathe
Air is invisible, but that doesn’t mean it’s harmless. |
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The Syllables of Movement
New technologies that allow video games to capture a player’s movement.. |
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A Vision of Model Eyes
If you look up close at the eyes of a fruit fly... |
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Sound Signals
How does the brain hear? |
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It’s All in the Genes—and Collaborations
We know so much about human genetics thanks to the human genome project... |
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Disease Detectives
How do doctors find treatments for disease? |
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| 11.18 |
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This is Your Brain on Football
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) |
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It's Getting Hot in Here
Heat therapy |
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Habits that Last a Lifetime
How much television do you watch in a day? |
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EXITing the Future
Fetal Atrioventricular (AV) block and EXIT |
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Mmm... Salty
Did you know that your brain contains approximately one billion neurons? |
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Waking Up Is Hard To Do
How do you wake yourself up each morning? |
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State of the Heart
The Visible Heart® Lab studies live hearts hearts in the laboratory to improve... |
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The Science of Cinnamon
Cereals with cinnamon, cinnamon sugar, cinnamon buns... |
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How to Melt an Ice Cube
Last month, What A Year! explored the work of Dr. Korkut Uygun... |
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Freezing Yet Unfrozen: Organ Preservation of the Future
Nearly every product you buy in the grocery store comes with an expiration date... |
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Wake Up and Smell the Orange Oil
We know that oranges can keep you healthy... |
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Spinach and Hearts: A Cross-Kingdom Collaboration
Two scientists walk into a bar. A salad bar. |
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Disappearing Diabetes
The American Diabetes Association estimates that over 29 million Americans... |
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Strengthening Those Lazy Eyes: Gamers Rejoice
Treating children's Amblyopia with video games |
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Technology, Clinical Research, and You
Technology is making it easier for individual citizen-scientists to conduct... |
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The Mighty Mountain Ultra-Marathon
Aerobic and anaerobic exercise |
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Envisioning an End to Preventable Blindness
Cataracts |
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Language Learning May Boost Your Brain
Learning a language improves cognitive function |
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Appetite Control
How do you know when to stop eating? |
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Fancy Footwear
According to evolutionary biologists, humans have been running... |
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| 11.16 |
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You Are What You Eat
The effects of fatty acids on the development of allergies and asthma. |
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| 10.16 |
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What’s in Your Blood?
The toxicity of CO gas has been recognized by humans for millennia. |
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| 09.16 |
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Stress Test
When was the last time you “stressed out” about something? |
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Tick Check!
Don’t get Lyme disease |
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3D Printed Prosthetics
Amniotic Band Syndrome |
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Early Detection Saves Lives
Finding and Treating Cancer Early |
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Fighting Back
Inflammation, Stress, and the Power of Positive Thinking |
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Collaborative Clots
Polymers that help Blood Clotting |
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A Rosy Future?
Can rosehips be used to treat cancer? |
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You Snooze, You Win
Importance of Sleep |
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| 11.15 |
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Relapsing Rats: How Gender Affects Alcohol Consumption
Alcohol and Gender |
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Peanut Power
Peanut Benefits |
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| 09.15 |
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Tumor Paint: the Art of Science
Cancer Cells |
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Smoke Alarm for your Brain
Epilepsy |
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Microscopic Magnets
Fighting cancer with magnets |
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21st Century Knitting Needles
Magnetic suturing |
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Mind the Gap
Skeletal Gaps and Polymer Foam |
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Mighty Mitochondria
TAZ and Barth Syndrome |
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It's not what meets the eye... Contact lenses of the future
Contact lenses and medication delivery |
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| 12.14 |
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Opposites... Infect
Respiratory Infections |
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| 11.14 |
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Allergic Reactions: A friend of your enemy?
Allergies |
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Hit the Brakes!
Epilepsy |
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| 09.14 |
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Virtual Surgery
Virtual Implants |
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Communication Is Key
Communication Between Cells |
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Persistent Pain
Treating Chronic Pain |
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Illuminating Bioluminescence
Why Some Organisms Glow |
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Always Your Mother's Child
Mother / Fetus Benefits |
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How Old Is Your Blood?
Aging |
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Bioinspired!
Porcupine Quills |
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Smell The Roses
Smell Loss |
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| 11.13 |
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Don't Stress Out
Stress |
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Connecting the Dots: Obesity and Cancer
Obesity and Cancer |
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Protect Your Head, Protect Your Health
Traumatic Brain Injury |
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Unlocking the Bioelectric Code
Bioelectric Code |
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Supported Growth
Tissue Regeneration |
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Tapping Your Inner Potential
Endocochlear Potential |
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The Silk of the Future
Silk-Based Technology |
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Brain Freeze and Headaches
Cause of Headaches |
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The Fish of the Future
Robotic Fish |
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| 12.12 |
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Switching on Salmonella
Infection Causing Bacteria |
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| 11.12 |
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The Energizer... Snail?
Biofuel cell-implanted snails |
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Oh, The Memories!
Alzheimer's Disease |
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| 09.12 |
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Smooth as Silk
Insect-Made Silk |
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Medicine of the Future
Controlled-Release Systems |
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Got Milk?
Glycans in Human Milk |
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Hardy Hearts
Hardy Hearts |
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The Crystals Within
New Enamel |
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A Tear That Can Drive You to Tears
Spinal Discs |
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Let's Get Specific
Improper Immune Response |
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| 12.11 |
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Immunity Of A Shark
Immunity Of A Shark |
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| 11.11 |
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Who Let the Virus In?
Who Let the Virus In? |
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| 10.11 |
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How Strong Are Your Circuits?
Understanding the Human Brain |
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| 09.11 |
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When the Waste Won't Leave
Krabbe Disease |
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Blood Vessels of the Future
Bioengineered Blood Vessels |
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Artificial Proteins in a Living Cell
Synthetic Biology |
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Of Mice And Men
Medical Research |
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How Tight Are Your Connections?
Autism |
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The Iron Within
Staphylococcus aureus |
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A Universal Vaccine
Streptococcus pneumoniae |
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| 12.10 |
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We Are Family
Eating Disorders |
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Concentration: It Matters
Puberty |
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Spring Forward
Amputees |
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Cells Immortal
Chagas Disease |
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Silencing Your Cells
Cell |
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Recovering from Recession ? With Far Less Pain
Regrowing Cells |
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Like Mother, Like Child
Inheritance |
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Regrowing Hearing and Balance Cells - A Possibility?
Regrowing Hearing Cells |
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Somestimes It's All In Your Genes
Lyme Disease |
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Sensing the Killer
Tuberculosis |
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| 12.09 |
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The Bacteria Within
Bacteria and Obesity |
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Super–athletes
Sled Dogs |
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Bones in Balance
Bears and Bone Density |
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"Honey, I Shrunk the...Sensor?"
Diabetes Tattoo |
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When the Sleeping Dog Can't Lie
Narcolepsy |
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Regenerating Neurons
Eyes |
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Sugar High
Diabetes |
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Exhaustion Can Be Fatal
Infection |
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We All Need a Little Space
Arthritis |
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Overcoming the Odds: New Hope For Patients
Traumatic Brain Injury |
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A Series of Rather Fortunate Events
Cancer |
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Light Up Your Brain
Brainbows |
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An Unseen Threat
Toxoplasmosis |
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Snow White and the Eighth Factor
Obesity |
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Good Vibrations
Obesity |
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Exercise
for the Heart
Preconditioned Hearts |
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Could “Sleeping Beauty” Really Happen?
Cryogenics |
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What
A Difference A Gene Makes
Batten Disease |
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Would
you like some tea with that?
Sepsis |
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A Spoonful of Sugar...
Multiple Sclerosis |
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| 12.07 |
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Genetic Link of Autism
Neurotoxins |
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| 11.07 |
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A Film Strip That Could Save Your Life!
What went wrong? |
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| 10.07 |
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Bullseye
Making Drugs Hit Targets |
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| 09.07 |
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Bacteria
The Invisible Army |
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Obesity
Get up and move |
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E. coli
When Good Bacteria Turn Bad |
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Depression
Addiction and Depression—Two Sides of the Same Coin? |
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| 02.07 |
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Epilepsy
Too Much Brain Excitement Could Be Harmful To Your Health |
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Dental Caries
Imagine . . . A World Without Cavities |
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| 12.06 |
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Angiogenesis
Could you make a mouse the size of an elephant? |
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| 11.06 |
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Parkinson's Disease
Folding
Proteins, Michael J. Fox and Parkinson's Disease. What do they have in common? |
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| 10.06 |
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Asthma
The work of natural killers! |
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| 09.06 |
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Why Does the Pain Remain?
Learn why the pain remains after an injury! |
