February 1995

The Beast in the Belly

A surgeon's tale of microbes, medicine, and unreasonable faith, of New Guinea and New Haven and a young woman on the edge of a mysterious death.

by Sherwin B. Nuland

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February

Departments

Whither the Y?

The price of making a man is an ever shrinking chromosomal claim to fame.
by Kenneth R. Miller

The Purpose of Toes

by Carl Zimmer

Triumph of the Archaea

by Carl Zimmer

A Cult of Proteins

by Josie Glausiusz

Backward Ran the Sound

by Tim Folger

Groundhog Sky

by Bob Berman

The Heart and the Helix

by Jeffrey Kluger