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Building a Better Mouse
A notoriously poor proxy for the human experience of cancer, mouse models are now undergoing a major renovation. EDYTA ZIELINSKA asks: Can a new multimillion dollar project find a mouse model that can help patients and save companies millions on drugs that are destined to fail?
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Master of the Cell
RNA interference, with its powerful promise of therapy for many diseases, may also act as a master regulator of most-if not all—cellular processes, according to JUDY LIEBERMAN, senior investigator at Children's Hospital Boston and a professor of pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School.
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Against the Element
Grisly research in the Arctic is causing some scientists to wonder: Is there no safe level of mercury? ELIE DOLGIN flew 1500 kilometers north of Montreal (where the wind chill made it roughly-35°C) to find out more.
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