Tracing the life cycle of a manmade disease
...ease called periprosthetic osteolysis a condition spawned inadvertently by the medical pioneers who, in finding a treatment for debilitating hip disease, had created a whole new problem. In the early 1990s, Harris and his team began to focus their attention on finding a way to decrease the wear and tear of...President names eight elite scientists and engineers to receive National Medals of Science
...e the 2002 National Medal of Science for work that spawned many advances in scientific theory and developments leading to new technologies. The presidential medal is the nation's highest honor for researchers who make major impacts in fields of science and engineering through career-long, ground-breaking ac...The Lancet Infectious Diseases (TLID)
...emographic imperative" of an ageing population has spawned a surge of interest in the interface of infection and ageing. Bacteria tune-in and turn-on Miguel Cmara (School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK) and colleagues review the ways bacteria "tune-in" to each other through a proces......cholars will study the fundamental cultural change spawned by the everyday use of the new media. The scientists also intend to identify user-oriented ways of providing information in the Internet and study empirically which methods of working with the new media have developed. Mathematicians at the unive...