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Stanford researchers have reported what appears to be the first significant use of monoclonal antibodies to help transplant tissues in animals.
July 26, 1987
In the first discovery of its kind in more than 20 years, San Diego scientists have found a new hormone in the human body: a molecule that shows promise in influencing the development of the human embryo, regulation of cholesterol and treatments of cancer, according to a scientific journal.
Jan. 24, 1992
World & Nation
The scientist was among the first to synthesize an enzyme in a laboratory. He also led a team that developed key drugs for Merck.
Sept. 16, 2014
Theoretical physicists, who have long toiled in obscurity, have suddenly developed an unaccustomed celebrity.
After more than a decade of making almost no progress, researchers have discovered an unexpected new family of materials that lose all resistance to the flow of electricity at temperatures much higher than those previously known.
Jan. 30, 1987
AIDS researchers are carefully studying a small number of cases in which people appear to have been infected with the AIDS virus several years before such infection could be detected with standard blood tests.
May 16, 1988
Technology and the Internet
UCLA researcher learns about corporate finance as he builds his biotech start-up.
July 7, 1999
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Sept. 6, 2002
Solar-panel trouble may have ended the probe’s `illustrious career.’
Nov. 22, 2006
Solar-panel trouble may have ended the probe’s ‘illustrious career.’