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Cover of April 2009 cover
BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

By Marianne Meadahl
Photography by Dina Goldstein

A new theory of how autism and schizophrenia develop.
Bernard Crespi has been quietly at work connecting research across the diverse fields of molecular genetic psychiatry and evolutionary biology – all with the view to better understanding the roots of two key brain disorders: autism and schizophrenia.

handsIT’S ALL IN THE NUMBERS

By Sharon Proctor

Health Sciences demographer Robert Hogg tracks people with HIV.
Most of us are alive today because of one or more medical miracles. Thanks to antibiotics, vaccines, surgery, pacemakers, and other advances of the past 30 years, our lifespan is longer and quality of life far better than anything our forebears experienced a century ago.

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graphicDRUGS FROM WORMS

By Barry Shell

There’s a promising new treatment for psoriasis and eczema being developed. Its active ingredient? A drug discovered by an SFU graduate student as he studied roundworm parasites in soil.

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Bridge and river sketchVANCOUVERISM VS. MOTORDOM

By Gordon Price
The City Program highlights a new urbanism.
How a City Took on the Car and Changed Everything

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