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Tuberculosis (TB) has affected human beings since Neolithic times (1). In ancient Greece it was known as phthisis, which means “wasting.” During the 17th and 18th centuries in…
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Human Papillomavirus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus From influenza to smallpox to Ebola, viruses, some of the smallest and most intriguing infectious agents,…
As visual creatures, humans believe what they see. We rely on our vision for macroscopic observations. Vast advances in microscopy now also enable visualization of cellular and sub-cellular…
Why can the Universe exist as it is now? Physicists have been striving to answer this question. A proposed theory is “broken symmetry.” In 2008, the Nobel Prize…
Ross Virginia is highly involved at Dartmouth College as a professor of environmental studies, the director of the Institute of Arctic Studies, as well as the principle investigator…