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DEPARTMENTS

OF NOTE [427 KB]
Carbon monoxide’s beneficial effects.
New light shed on miscarriages.
Breaking bones in the backcountry.

INVESTIGATIONS [228 KB]
Traffic cops of the cells.
Convention says that body temperature
is controlled by the brain alone; that
doesn’t appear to be the case in
Allan Zhao’s mice.

MATCH LIST [46 KB]
Reach out to Pitt med grads in your town.

ATTENDING [133 KB]
An African coming-of-age story.

ALUMNI NEWS [218 KB]
Mankin-to-Mankin advice.
Jacqueline Tulsky has been itching to
spend time at San Quentin.

LAST CALL [72 KB]
You can take the oceanographer out of the doctor, but you can't take...

COVER STORY

We’ve mapped the human genome; what’s next? Computational biologists at Pitt are looking for effective shortcuts to new cures. Clockwise from right: Ivet Bahar (in blue jacket), Dan Zuckerman, Takis Benos, and Hagai Meirovitch.
(Illustration © John Ritter. Photos © Chuck Mitchell.)

FEATURES

Addictive Research [171 KB]
Susan Amara, Pitt’s new chair of neurobiology, has run across some pretty tough characters in her work, including cocaine hijackers.
BY ROBIN MEJIA

Biology Reloaded [299 KB]
A team of computational researchers at Pitt are ignoring what they hope are unnecessary biological data. They believe this approach will drastically accelerate our ability to reap benefits from the Human Genome Project.
COVER STORY BY JASON TOGYER

"I've Got Nothing" [412 KB]
Even when it is less than 20 degrees and the cold shelters have opened for the homeless, street doctor and Pitt alum Jim Withers does rounds.
PHOTO-ESSAY BY MARTHA RIAL AND MEGHAN HOLOHAN

A Doctor's Run [85 KB]
This time, he’s the one with the disease.
ESSAY BY GEOFFREY KURLAND