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With the successes of molecular medicine and the recent announcement of a human gene transfer protocol, the medical world is asking whether gene therapists will now deliver the goods.
A celebration of scientific anniversaries featuring dancing frogs' legs, Java Man, the birth of electromagnetism, French metrication, the classification of screws, a treatise on the astrolabe, and much, much more.
