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TOPIC RESULTS: HEALTH & MEDICINE

HEALTH & MEDICINE Meet the Biochemist Engineering Proteins From Scratch 10/30/2018 — By Jonathon Keats Biochemist David Baker changed the study of proteins — now he’s changing the proteins.

MORE ABOUT: MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

HEALTH & MEDICINE Vertigo, Panic and Trouble Breathing: What’s Going On Here? 10/19/2018 — By Tony Dajer Chest-tightening, world-spinning attacks leave a 25-year-old grasping for answers.

MORE ABOUT: PERSONAL HEALTH, BRAIN STRUCTURE & FUNCTION

HEALTH & MEDICINE The Coroner Crisis 10/2/2018 — By Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi In 1920s Chicago, forensic pathologists were overworked and taking shortcuts. Today they face a similar problem amid a nationwide opioid epidemic.

MORE ABOUT: MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

MIND & BRAIN Searching for the Sandman 9/28/2018 — By Henry Nicholls Generations of scientists have tried to explain why we sleep. The answer may rest in the most primitive brains.

MORE ABOUT: BRAIN STRUCTURE & FUNCTION

HEALTH & MEDICINE Cellular Cyborgs: How Programmable DNA Strands Might Control Healing 9/25/2018 — By Eric Smalley Are programmable, living circuits the future of medicine?

HEALTH & MEDICINE Low Note 9/24/2018 — By Julia Michie Bruckner A teenage girl’s changing appearance and voice baffle doctors.

MORE ABOUT: PERSONAL HEALTH

HEALTH & MEDICINE Not So Fast 9/24/2018 — By Mark Barna Scientists disagree on how to eat for your best life. Dieting may never be the same.

MORE ABOUT: NUTRITION, OBESITY

HEALTH & MEDICINE The Man Who Lost His Language Overnight 8/13/2018 — By Eliezer J. Sternberg One day, a 70-year-old man woke up speaking a language his wife couldn’t understand.

ENVIRONMENT A Double Whammy 6/12/2018 — By Rachel Cernansky Exposure to certain chemicals may be a quiet culprit in the global increase of liver disease.

HEALTH & MEDICINE Cracking Listeria’s Secrets 6/12/2018 — By Claire Panosian Dunavan We know a lot about the crafty and resilient microbe, but it remains a deadly threat.

HEALTH & MEDICINE Human Speed 6/12/2018 — By Teal Burrell Born to run.