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September 1993
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; September 1993; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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Masthead; September 1993; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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Super Trouble; September 1993; by Tim Beardsley and Russell Ruthen; 2 Page(s)
The threatened SSC casts
a pall over particle physics
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Shaking Conventional Wisdom; September 1993; by Kristin Leutwyler; 1 Page(s)
Those who adore Brazil nuts have no doubt wondered why shaking a can of assorted kernels always brings the large ones to the top.
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Jovian Jolt; September 1993; by Corey S. Powell; 2 Page(s)
A comet heads for a smashup with Jupiter
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Fermat's MacGuffin; September 1993; by John Horgan; 2 Page(s)
A great math problem is finally (probably) conquered
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Malignant Mimicry; September 1993; by John Rennie; 2 Page(s)
False estrogens may cause
cancer and lower sperm counts
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Fads and Feds; September 1993; by Tim Beardsley; 3 Page(s)
Holistic therapy collides
with reductionist science
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Life, Death and the Immune System; September 1993; by Sir Gustav J. V. Nossal; 10 Page(s)
By defining and defending the self, the immune system
makes life possible; malfunction causes illness and death. Study
of the system provides a unifying view of biology
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How the Immune System Develops; September 1993; by Irving L. Weissman and Max D. Cooper; 8 Page(s)
Environmental and genetic signals cue cells
as they differentiate into the many lineages that
recognize foreign antigens and fight off invaders
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How the Immune System Recognizes Invaders; September 1993; by Charles A. Janeway, Jr.; 8 Page(s)
Cells of the immune system recombine gene fragments
to create the millions of receptors needed to identify and attack
the myriad pathogens encountered throughout life
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How the Immune System Recognizes the Body; September 1993; by Philippa Marrack and John W. Kappler; 8 Page(s)
The human immune system has developed several
elegant processes that allow it to repel foreign invaders
and yet not attack the body itself
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Infectious Diseases and the Immune System; September 1993; by William E. Paul; 8 Page(s)
When bacteria, viruses and other pathogens infect the body,
they hide in different places. Each component of the immune
system is most adept at rousting trespassers from one location
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AIDS and the Immune System; September 1993; by Warner C. Greene; 8 Page(s)
The AIDS virus exploits the immune system to replicate itself. New findings are showing how it wreaks havoc on the body's defenses
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Autoimmune Disease; September 1993; by Lawrence Steinman; 9 Page(s)
Misguided assaults on the self produce multiple
sclerosis, juvenile diabetes and other chronic
illnesses. Promising therapies are emerging
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Allergy and the Immune System; September 1993; by Lawrence M. Lichtenstein; 9 Page(s)
In allergic individuals, parts of the immune system
misdirect their power at innocuous substances,
producing sometimes deadly symptoms
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The Immune System as a Therapeutic Agent; September 1993; by Hans Wigzell; 8 Page(s)
New technologies and insights into the molecular
underpinnings of the immune system provide the basis
for novel approaches to vaccines and other therapies
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Will We Survive?; September 1993; by Avrion Mitchison; 9 Page(s)
As host and pathogen evolve
together, will the immune system
retain the upper hand?
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Crystal Light; September 1993; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 2 Page(s)
Storing volumes of data
in four-dimensional spots
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Contented Cows?; September 1993; by Gary Stix; 1 Page(s)
"This room is a big coil, that's what it is," says Javier Burchard, a veterinary researcher at McGill University's Macdonald campus.
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Tr¿s Grande Alliance; September 1993; by Fred Guterl, Robert Patton and Gary Stix; 2 Page(s)
Europe follows the U.S. into digital broadcasting
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In Vitro, In the Money; September 1993; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 1 Page(s)
A government-approved test
spares rabbits and snares bucks
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Natural Selection; September 1993; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 2 Page(s)
Investors aren't buying into Darwin Molecular's evolution
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Blackballing the Inner City; September 1993; by Gary Stix; 1 Page(s)
Alan P. Sager still remembers the disappointment he experienced as an 11-year-old in 1958 when the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles.
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Book Reviews; September 1993; by Philip Morrison; 5 Page(s)
Monticello Redux; Travels in Central America; A Desperate Solution
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Immunology and Reciprocity; September 1993; by Barry R. Bloom; 1 Page(s)
Reciprocity, recognized from the time of Confucius as a fundamental value in human relationships, has not usually been regarded as important to the scientific endeavor.
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