Contents Listing
Biology and Medicine:
"Spying on the Grim Reaper: How small molecules can be used to monitor cell death" by Alicia B. Berger
"The Ticking of Internal Clocks: Research Links Circadian Rhythms to Memory" by Michelle Meyer and Nishma Sachedina
"The Invisible Polluter: The Effect of Groundwater Discharge on Coastal Ecosystems" by Misha Tran
"Diabetes and Calcineurin: A single protein may treat the symptoms of diabetes" by Chelsea Young
"An Epilepsy Mechanism Revealed: The link between a therapeutic drug and a neural protein involved in epilepsy" by Brittany Mier
"From Manatees to Mice: How a single gene can affect highly divergent species" by Erika Williams
"Diagnosing Mitochondrial Diseases: Biomarkers help to understand disorders of the cell's energy generators" by Julie Boiko
"The Protein Switch: A New Technique Improves the Study of Proteins" by Quynh Anh Nguyen
"Protein Visualization: Imaging Protein Transport in Live Cells" by Adrienne Sussman
"Just what the Doctor Ordered: Healing Skin Wounds with Modified Proteins" by Elizabeth Burstein
"Formidable Tuberculosis Mutations: Tuberculosis Strains are Mutating to Resist Drugs and Increase Fitness by Kathleen Jia
"Viral Capsids for Vaccine Delivery: Engineering the cell-free production of viral proteins" by Lauren Mamer
"Visible Evolution: A new look at the eye" by Stephanie Le
Engineering and Technology:
"Brain on a Chip: Computer Architecture Branches Out" by Camille Sindhu
"Cellulose Research Paves the Way for New Biofuels: Exploring the worldÕs most abundant material at a molecular level" by Stacie Nishimoto
"Visionary Engineering: Designing an Artificial Cornea Using Polymer Networks" by Andy Dow
"Space Detectives Find Proof for Dark Matter: Colliding galaxy clusters reveal dark matter" by W. Maria Wang
"Diamondoids in the Rough: The Path to the Nanotechnology Revolution" by Jian Cui and Kellen Schefter
"Experimental Economics: Testing Business Decisions in the Lab" by Anjali Vaidya
"Using Math to Counter Terrorism: A mathematical model that tests the durability of terrorist cell structures" by Quaneisha Jenkins
"Switching on the Light Bulb: Lighting the Way in Neural Circuit Dynamics" by Caitlyn McCullough
"Advances in Neural Prosthetics: Translating neural signals into movement" by David Aum
"Winning Probabilities: Stanford Physics Graduate Wins Millions at Poker" by Julian Hong
"Sequencing Made Simple: An efficient technique on the road to personal genome sequencing" by Shelby Martin
Ethics and Policy:
"The Uncertain Fate of the Brazilian Amazon: How Selective Logging Impacts the Sustainability of Rainforests" by Julia Guth
"New Genetic Counseling Program at Stanford School of Medicine: A new generation of genetic counselors will help transfer knowledge from the lab to the patient" by Hahn Nguyen
"The Global Community: HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment in Africa: Can Community-Driven Treatment Programs Break Down Stigma And Fight HIV/AIDS?" by Kaylin Pennington
"The Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment: Global Environmental Change Affects the Timing of Plant Growth and Flowering" by Nancy Falxa-Raymond
"Taking the Moral High Road: The Medical Center Enacts A Policy Separating Medicine from Industry" by David Sherman
"Ethical Stem Cells: Deriving Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines without Destroying the Embryo" by Anthony Tuan Nguyen
"Can the UN Heal the World by 2015?: Stanford Medical School Hosts Conference on UN Goals" by Victoria Parente
Spotlights
"Nobel Prize Awarded to Andrew Fire for RNA Interference" by Benjamin Tran
"Nobel Prize Awarded to Roger Kornberg for Visualization of Transcription" by Benjamin Tran
"Book Review: "The Singularity is Near" by Ray Kurzweil" by Jason Shen