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Now, at the golden anniversary, we celebrate how much we have learned since then, including how little we know. For years scientists thought we human beings must have about 100,000 genes stitched onto our 23 pairs of chromosomes, only to discover that the number is less than a third...
--WHAT THEY HAVE FOUND: Inspectors have visited Iraqi distilleries, an animal-vaccine factory and several other sites but have not found any evidence of violations. U.S. intelligence suggests Saddam is using mobile labs.
As an M.I.T. professor, he researched proteins that block HIV from healthy cells. At Merck he spearheaded the company's 2001 acquisition of Rosetta InPharmatics, a biotech company. Kim, 44, was recently named head of Merck Research Laboratories, which spent approximately $3 billion last year. Among its products in late...
Childhood immunization is a victim of its own success. Thirty years ago, most children got five shots in the first two years of life; today the number is 20, with as many as five in a single visit. Ouch! The first ever five-in-one combination vaccine will take a...
That's welcome news for crying babies. It also makes complying with immunization easier, especially as new vaccines are developed. "We are at the point where we just can't keep adding more injections," says Dr. Margaret Rennels of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The only hitch: the small minority...