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Leroy Hood: Discovery Science   Published 02/10/03
Biotech guru Leroy Hood leads researchers in a new direction
Mary Beth Gardiner

Leroy Hood is known as the father of biotechnology for the development of groundbreaking biomedical instrumentation. Now he’s calling for a revolution of thought – an interdisciplinary, systems approach to biological discovery that challenges conventional wisdom about how research is conducted. A lifetime of influences, opportunities and challenges has led Hood to this, his meridian hour.   [read more]
Grabbing the golden ring   Published 07/16/03
Insulin, glucose meters and the control of an ancient disease
Mary Beth Gardiner

A century ago a diagnosis of diabetes was a death knell. There was little a physician could offer in the way of help, other than home remedies and desperation diets that only slowed the inexorable wasting of flesh to skin and bone. Opium dulled the anguish.   [read more]
A disparate burden   Published 07/16/03
Genes, culture and the challenge of prevention
Mary Beth Gardiner

Minority groups in the United States are disproportionately affected by diabetes and complications of the disease. Nashville's two medical schools, Vanderbilt and Meharry, have forged partnerships with community health centers and public health programs to improve treatment, prevention and patient education. A report from the front lines of diabetes care.   [read more]
Creativity and madness: are they linked?   Published 11/18/03
Mary Beth Gardiner

Biologists with an evolutionary bent observe that schizophrenia must be adaptive in some way or it would have been eliminated by now. Some theorists suggest that there is a creative element associated with schizophrenia that ensures the disorder stays in our genome.   [read more]
Inside Out: Looking at schizophrenia’s inner chaos   Published 11/18/03
Mary Beth Gardiner

Characterized by delusions, hallucinations and disordered thinking, schizophrenia affects one in every 100 people worldwide. Using increasingly sophisticated technologies, scientists are probing the genetic, molecular and structural underpinnings of the disorder, now widely recognized as a problem of brain growth and development. In the process, they are rediscovering the link between creativity and madness.   [read more]

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