Issue 2

Fall 2017

Features

Feature

Gone are the days of “blobology:” the art of imaging at ultra-low temperatures has set off a quantum leap in research on biologic molecules.

The cryo-EM revival

October 1, 2017

C. David Allis

Can cancer cells be rehabilitated?

October 1, 2017

Chibuzo Enemchukwu

How does who you are affect your health? With one foot in social psychology and the other in virology, clinical fellow Chibuzo Enemchukwu is going to the roots of some of medicine’s thorniest problems.

October 1, 2017

Feature

Therapeutics has gone underground. From one bag of soil, chemists can now procure millions of microbial molecules. Any one could be tomorrow’s lifesaving medicine.

Drugs from dirt

October 1, 2017

Feature

For the brain, seeing a face is very different from seeing a teacup. In studying a mysterious ailment, face blindness, scientists are getting a rare glimpse into the biology of the mind.

The face-recognition puzzle

October 1, 2017

Inside the energy-burning cells that just might hold the answer of some of our biggest health problems.

Feature

Long considered the enemy of health, it turns out there’s more to fat than meets the eye. New research has raised the tantalizing possibility that fat cells themselves could be allies in fighting obesity.

Fat, reappreciated

October 1, 2017

Interview

Michael W. Young

The more he looked, the prettier the science became. Young’s work on the biological clock led to trailblazing discoveries of genes that make all organisms tick—and to a Nobel Prize.

October 1, 2017