Meritorious Heroes

Green Heroes

1 Dipartimento di Scienze di Sanità Pubblica, Sezione di Parassitologia, University of Rome-La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, 2 Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 3 Centre Medical Saint Camille, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 4 Kenya Medical Research Institute, Wellcome Trust Programme, Centre for Geographic Medicine Resea...

When heroes stumble.

The American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association faces a quandary. The name of Dr Thomas Parran, a 20th century hero in the field of sexually transmitted disease prevention, accompanies a prestigious award given by the organization annually. Members are now confronted with the unsettling realization that Parran, like many honored figures of the past, also had a less heroic side. It was al...

2007 Awards for Meritorious Contributions to Neuropathology.

T he Award for Meritorious Contributions to Neuropathology recognizes a member who has made significant contributions to the advancement of knowledge in neuropathology and provided service to the American Association of Neuropathologists. The qualities of outstanding scientific achievement and service are embodied in the 2007 recipients, Drs. James M. Powers and Cedric S. Raine. The American As...

Challenge Fourth Place , Meritorious Team Prize

The Heroes of CRISPR

Three years ago, scientists reported that CRISPR technology can enable precise and efficient genome editing in living eukaryotic cells. Since then, the method has taken the scientific community by storm, with thousands of labs using it for applications from biomedicine to agriculture. Yet, the preceding 20-year journey--the discovery of a strange microbial repeat sequence; its recognition as an...