Seventy years ago today on Dec. 2, 1942, World War II was raging overseas, and Enrico Fermi and 48 other scientists gathered in a squash court beneath the football stadium at the University of Chicago.

How many genes can you strip from a cell and still call it a cell?

Shih-Yew Chen, senior environmental engineer, has been appointed by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson to serve a three-year term on the EPA Radiation Advisory Committee and Science Advisory Board.

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