This Week’s NOVA Next Feature Article
By tracing the connections between genes and proteins, researchers think they have found a roadmap of disease. NOVA Next contributor Cynthia Graber reports on the evolving science of the diseaseome.
In other news from NOVA and around the web:
- A woman has given birth to a baby boy less than two years after she received a uterus transplant .
- The brilliant blue cells on this clam direct sunlight into its interior, providing light for algae inside.
- The Washington Post published a long report on Ebola’s exponential spread.
- Three European scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize for their work elucidating the brain ‘s “GPS.” Here’s a 2013 story in The New York Times about their work.
- Bioengineers hack PCs and phones to be cheap disease detectors.
- Author David Quammen argues that our common humanity calls on us to help the people of West Africa.
- The effects of performance-enhancing drugs can last decades .
- Watch Nobel Prize winner Stefan Hell explain super-resolution microscopy .
- Scientists have coaxed human embryonic stem cells into making insulin .
- A trio of researchers have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for improving the resolution of optical microscopes.
Did you miss "Why Planes Vanish"? Watch it streaming online here.
- An obscure berry in the Australian rainforest could plant the seed for future cancer treatments .
- The loudest noise in recorded history was so loud it circled the Earth four times .
- Since 1948, 28 passenger flights have vanished. Here’s a map of where things went wrong.
- This astrophysicist wants to eradicate malaria by using light as a barrier between humans and mosquitoes.
- Ebola : what you should and shouldn’t be worried about.
- A guide to all of the experimental treatments being used to fight Ebola.
- A Boston start-up wants to capture wind energy at 2,000 feet.
- Physicist Don Lincoln says blue LEDs deserve the Nobel Prize.
- “Any kind of person can be a scientist.” — Maria Klawe
Did you miss "Surviving Ebola"? Watch it streaming online here.
