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...adventure novels written under the name John Lange, one was an Edgar Award-winning medical-detective paperback under the name Jeffrey Hudson, and another was the hardcover breakthrough under his own name, The Andromeda Strain, which was published as he worked out a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. He says he produced 10,000 words a day during those years, and no one who knows his work habits disputes...
...there is no shortage of competing theories about how consciousness might arise. One, offered by the Salk Institute's Francis Crick (co-discoverer of the structure of DNA) and Christof Koch, at the California Institute of Technology, is that consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high-frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing of these frequencies that generates consciousness, according to Crick and Koch, just as the tones from individual instruments produce the rich, complex and seamless sound of a symphony orchestra. The concept is highly speculative, Crick acknowledges...
...Salk was able to realize a lifelong dream when he became director of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies at a magnificent compound designed by Louis Kahn, on an oceanfront promontory in La Jolla, California. It attracted scientists in many fields to pursue biomedical research. In 1970, two years after divorcing his first wife, Salk married Francoise Gilot, the onetime companion and muse of Pablo Picasso and mother of two of Picasso's children...
When a new epidemic emerged in the 1980s, AIDS, Salk plunged into the effort to find a vaccine that would prevent people who are already infected with HIV from progressing to the full-blown disease. Though many scientists remain skeptical of Salk's approach, small-scale tests are under...
...greatest pleasure of Salk's later life, which he pursued in several books and in countless luncheon conversations at his institute, was to reflect on the large questions of human evolution and people's roles as "co-authors" with nature in their destiny--such as, for instance, his own. "I could have studied the immunological properties of, say, the tobacco mosaic virus,'' he once reflected, "published my findings, and they would have been of some interest. But the fact that I chose to work on the polio virus, which brought control of a dreaded disease, made all the difference...