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Spring 2001, Volume 11, Number 1, Circulation 11,000, Subscribe Free

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Dan DrellView from the Inside: Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues of Human Genome Research—Dan Drell talks about sticky legal and social issues of human genome research and what DOE's ELSI Program is doing about it.
DNAHuman Genome Sequencing: Nearing the End of the Beginning—The long-awaited analyses of the draft sequences of the human genome were published in special issues of Science and Nature magazines with some results that surprised even the researchers.
The Muon Storage RingMagnetic Moment Challenges the Standard Model of Particle Physics—Brookhaven National Laboratory's precision measurement of "the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon," a type of subatomic particle, deviates from the value predicted by the Standard Model.
hot spotWorking Science: Scintimammography—New Breast Cancer Imaging Technology—Scientists at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility are testing two new medical imaging devices to detect cancer and potentially reduce the number of biopsies needed in the future.

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