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DEPARTMENTS

OF NOTE [493 KB]
Carnegie Museum star faculty will teach at the med school.
Alzheimer’s and daydreams.
Whose liver is it, anyway?

CLOSER [52 KB]
Now showing: one defibrillator, one parrot, a bucket of fried chicken, and Chuck Norris.

INVESTIGATIONS [540 KB]
Gene therapy trials for muscular dystrophy.
This microvesicle influences the immune system in ways no one imagined.
A new course focuses on day-to-day practice dilemmas.

ATTENDING [116 KB]
The evangelical pathologist.

ALUMNI NEWS [41 KB]
Fellowship alum George Mazariegos cures MSUD with transplants.

LAST CALL [965 KB]
George Washington with all of his teeth.

COVER STORY

With their dark arts, structural biologists explore the world beyond visible light, becoming privy to evolutionary lineages of viruses, how to make machines out of molecules, and then some. (Image courtesy Joanne Yeh.)

FEATURES

Dark Arts [761 KB]
Plying the world beyond visible light.
COVER STORY / IMAGE ESSAY
IMAGES BY JAMES CONWAY, ANGELA GRONENBORN,
AND JOANNE YEH; TEXT BY CHUCK STARESINIC

What Matters Most [570 KB]
How to treat people. Perspective-changing moments from members of the new Charles G. Watson Chapter of the Humanism in Medicine Society.
ANONYMOUS SUBMISSIONS
FOLLOW-UP BY CRAIG CAHALL

Forget It? [285 KB]
Guo-Qiang Bi tells us how we remember and forget.
BY JOE MIKSCH

Eye on Glaucoma [605 KB]
Joel Schuman can see into your future.
BY MEGHAN HOLOHAN