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In the world of science， few disciplines are as
fast-moving as biomedical research. Few are as
able to touch our lives. Few are as heavily publi-
cized. And yet few are less well known.
Each morning in thq newspaper， each night on
television， we hear of Uiscovery. New drugs and
vaccines， new insights:~to the workings of life
have appeared almost rotatinely since James Wat-
son and Francis Crick worked out the structure of
DNA some thirty years ago. Yet what we read
and hear is just the surface， results arrived at by
years of patient research that television hasn t the
time to explain.
For every headline， hundreds of experiments
go unnoticed except by the few scientists whose
work they advance. It is among these little-
known studies that we can find the future.
Searching it out is the special role of Omni maga-
zine.
When Omni first appeared， in October 1978， it
set a new standard for science journalism. Omni
writers understood both science and scientists.
They could report a finding as well as the best
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