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  Rosalind Franklin's artistic legacy

  
  Artists Wyllie and O Hagan strive to rekindle a lost legend
  Dawn Powell (5 Aug '07)
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  The art of healing

  
  Nancy Morgan influences the environment of cancer therapy
  Ian Brooks (10 Sep '06)
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  Complicated facts

  
  Philip Ball talks about dissecting the science and philosphy of the past
  Jennifer Rohn (22 Aug '06)
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  Beyond laboratory conditions

  
  Daniel Glaser moves on
  Jennifer Rohn (24 Apr '06)
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  Sequencing, sushi and sang-froid

  
  One man's account of the fly genome project
  Jennifer Rohn (2 Apr '06)
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  Supercollision

  
  How artist Emma Hart braved the physics at CERN, and what physicist Rolf Landua made of it all
  Jennifer Rohn (19 Mar '06)
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  Genes on film

  
  Michael Hayden’s research comes to life in The Score
  Jennifer Rohn (21 Dec '05)
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  Bold and calculating

  
  Dr. Jonathan Farley's bid to teach Hollywood about math
  Jennifer Rohn (22 Oct '05)
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  Science-in-theatre: a chemist attempts to translate

  
  With a new play opening in London, Carl Djerassi continues to put science center-stage
  Jennifer Rohn (30 Mar '05)
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  It's all in the delivery

  
  Effective science television hinges on striking a fine balance between truth and entertainment
  Jennifer Rohn (7 Mar '05)

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