Ancient Art, Fontain's Blushwood, and the Interactome: NOVA Next Week in Review

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.

• 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