Archive : Summer
2006
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 AUGUST
6: The 11th International Congress of Human Genetics, which meets only every
five years, will convene in Brisbane, Australia,
to discuss breakthroughs in gene therapy
and the mechanisms of aging, among other topics.
THROUGH SEPTEMBER: The National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C.,
hosts the exhibit “Cartoonists Take Up Smoking,” which documents four decades of
public debate through 55 newspaper editorial cartoons.
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TEEMING WITH MILLIONS OF SPECIES, coral
reefs provide astoundingly fertile ground for the discovery of molecules and, in turn, drugs. Such organisms as Caribbean sponges and cone-shell snails have yielded molecules that show promise in aiding research of such diseases as Alzheimer’s and cancer. As such earthly ailments as Staphylococcus and tuberculosis become resistant to antibiotics,
coral reefs—and the
oceans at large—are becoming
an ever more important biomedical resource.
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Photo by David Doubilet
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