Inflamed heart tissue infected with Mucor pusillus.
Image Courtesy of the CDC and Dr. Libero Ajello.
Spring 2008 - 10th Anniversary Edition

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Dartmouth Science News

22 Jul 2008
Link between gene expression and scleroderma discovered by Ali Flanagan '10

An association between gene expression and disease severity in scleroderma patients has been found, Dartmouth Medical School researchers reported online in the journal PLoS One on July 16.

11 Jul 2008
Moon rock sheds light on solar system formation by Colby Chiang '10

A unique moon rock known as Dhofar 961 may contain clues to the nature of the early solar system, NatureNews reported

27 Jun 2008
Drug-coated stents safe, Dartmouth researchers say by Sarah Carden '10

Drug-eluting stents show no increased risk of mortality, while decreasing the need for repeat procedures to unblock coronary arteries

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Battle of the Sexes

Colby Chiang '10

In the summer of 1925, Russian geneticist Sergey Gershenson collected 19 female fruit flies of the species Drosophila obscura from a forest near Moscow. He brought the captured flies back to his laboratory and mated them with normal males to study their offspring. By the second generation of matings, Gershenson noticed a puzzling trend: some [...]