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DEPARTMENTS

OF NOTE [701 KB]
Fainting may point toward more serious conditions.
BioMedical Security Institute established.
An ABC health correspondent can’t deny her lineage.

INVESTIGATIONS [603 KB]
Students catch the research bug—
despite the mosquitoes.
Mysteries of a vital cellular process,
now appearing in 3-D.
When every second counts.

98.6 DEGREES [93.2 KB]
Keeping people healthy at a ripened age.

ATTENDING [816 KB]
Dr. Rogers’s neighborhood.
Some begin med school sure
the MD life is meant for them;
others think, Have I lost my mind?

ALUMNI NEWS [508 KB]
Angioplasty in Myanmar.
Carol Shields explores “black silences.”

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FEATURES

COVER: Children with a rare disease known as XP don’t go outside until after the sun sets. These kids have put DNA’s intricate repair mechanisms in a new light. (Photo: StockTrek for Photodisc.)

Culture Samples [1.6 MB]
Life at a new transplant center in Sicily is like a start-up—a successful one. What students get from rotations there is more valuable than any stock option.
BY ROBERT MENDELSON

The Oval Wave [864 KB]
Stewart Sell wanted some answers, so he turned to an assay developed by his sophomore microbiology professor at Pitt. The results helped lead to his spending the next several years challenging conventional wisdom about the root of liver cancer.
BY REBECCA SKLOOT

 Challenging Cowboys [456 KB]
It’s a good thing that the late Niels Jerne, Nobel prize winner and former Pitt prof, didn’t let bed bugs or James Watson deter him. Some say the task of describing the biology of the immune response for the past few decades has been a matter of refining his ideas.
BY ERICA LLOYD

Moonlit Research [1.62 MB]
DNA requires constant tinkering to stay in smooth running condition. When its maintenance contract wears out, there’s trouble.
COVER STORY BY EDWIN KIESTER JR.