Inside the Science of Saving Lives
Meet five medical pioneers whose work reveals a sweeping range of innovations that promise to improve the lives of millions
Giving Neurosurgeons a Gift of Touch
SUNY Buffalo's Thenkurussi Kesavadas is developing tactile-feedback systems that could let brain docs practice delicate manuevers
A Marriage of Nanotech and Biotech
Harvard chemistry professor George Whitesides' latest quest is getting tiny nonliving structures to assemble themselves
A Sharper Eye for Seeing Within
A man of vision, Michael Phelps first recognized PET imaging technology's potential -- and then fought to get it accepted
Making Broken Children Normal
Pediatric head and face surgeon extraordinaire Kenneth Salyer learned early on that "this was the way that I could help"
In the Front Lines Against AIDS
Duke's Dani Bolognesi is helping create a new class of anti-HIV drugs that could be become important new weapons against a mutating enemy
THE BIOTECH BEAT A Hard Road to New Wonder Drugs
With few potential blockbusters in its pipeline, Big Pharma is mounting a costly quest on the very edge of the scientific frontier
(July 18, 2002)
SPECIAL REPORT: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
Implanted Chips That Deliver Your Drugs
Combining microprocessors and pharmaceuticals in devices that reside inside a patient could keep medicine at optimal levels
(June 18, 2002)
INVESTING Q&A
Where the Biotech Bets Are
John McCamant of The Medical Technology Stock Letter tells where he's making his in this poorly performing sector (June 11, 2002)
THE BIOTECH BEAT
Food as a Cancer Therapy
Researchers are renewing their quest to find links between diet and the disease that'll claim more than 500,000 American lives this year
(Mar. 14, 2002)
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