The Columbia University researcher describes his quest for HIV in San Francisco and SARS in China, the immune cascades that may cause autism, and the infectious roots of psychiatric disease.
05.11.2012
A patient’s heart tumor is all but inaccessible to his surgeons. The only way to deal with it: Remove the heart and operate on it outside the body.
05.09.2012
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<p>July's issue was printed with two different covers. Subscribers received the one on the left; newsstands the one on the right. Vote for your favorite.</p>
<p>At <a title="http://www.comic-con.org/" href="http://www.comic-con.org/" target="_blank">Comic-Con 2008</a>, DISCOVER's <a title="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/" href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/">Science Not Fiction blog</a> is hosting a panel about how science fiction relates to science.</p>
<p>For readers who won't be making it to Comic-Con, here's a question: Which of these visionary sci-fi technologies will be realized
first?</p>
<p>Which is the freakiest zombie animal? (<a href="http://discovermagazine.com/photos/04-zombie-animals-and-the-parasites-that-control-them" target="_blank">Click here</a> to look at the gallery.)<br /><br /></p>