It may sound like the set-up to an old joke. But for Judith James, the question of how to extract venom from a fanged spider roughly the size of a tea saucer was no laughing matter. In zoology class at Oklahoma Baptist University, each student received an animal to study and care for throughout the […]
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Talk About a Revolution
Putting a man on the moon was a pretty big deal. Ditto for splitting the atom. But in the eyes of biologists, both of these scientific milestones pale in comparison to a more recent landmark: the sequencing of the human genome. Scientists first produced a complete map of the genome (the technical term for all […]
Live Long and Prosper
By Michael Bratcher Growing up, Judith James rarely passed up an episode of Star Trek. From her living room in Pond Creek, she sat transfixed as Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise boldly went where no man had gone before. For the future physician and medical researcher, the workings of […]
