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The needle on the television-like screen stabs repeatedly into a round shape that has been identified as a lymph node. The images are shadowy, reminiscent of cloud formations seen on radar sweeps, but one rhythmically throbbing form is unmistakable. It is the beating heart of the patient who lies sedated and sleeping on the narrow […]

Mixed blessing

Despite his ambivalence about how it’s being marketed, the co-creator of the Lyme disease vaccine sees exciting possibilities in the unique way it works

Making choices

Robert Cohen combines professional skill with scholarly achievement

Somehow, he makes it work

For a guy who gets little screen time and unlikable roles, Jon Lovitz leaves a big impression spiked with sympathy

A modern Galileo

How UCI chemist F. Sherwood Rowland saved the world

Finding fault

Lisa Grant stalks the ‘natural terrorists’ of the Richter Scale