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The World Anti-Doping Agency has taken steps to ensure that the answers to both of these questions are optimistic. Blood and urine samples from the Athens games will be held for four years and periodically retested as new drugs and doping methods are uncovered. As a result of this...

Author: By Brenda Taylor, | Title: Doping Distress | 10/5/2004 | See Source »

If the bird-flu virus manages to become easily transmittable between humans, the world could be in for a health catastrophe approaching the "Spanish flu" pandemic of 1918, which killed an estimated 40 million people. But by week's end, health officials were relieved to discover that the disease had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sickness Spreads | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

The point of both chemical and classical genetic research is to figure out which genes do what?in effect, to learn to read an organism's genetic language. In classical genetics, scientists usually mutate an organism, see how its functions have changed (a mutated virus might no longer be infectious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking the SARS Code | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

In HKU's SARS study, Kao and his colleagues filled the tiny wells of a small, waffle-like board with samples of the coronavirus cultured in cell lines. Microscopic amounts of different chemical compounds were introduced into each separate well using a $180,000 machine called an automated high-throughput...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking the SARS Code | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

Smashing into the Utah desert at nearly 200 m.p.h. was no way to end a space mission, but that's just what the GENESIS spacecraft did last week. After a three-year flight to collect samples of the solar wind, Genesis was supposed to re-enter the atmosphere, deploy its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Performance of the Week | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

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