Kara Platoni

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The Structure Is the Message

Mutation does not always mean cancer. If you sampled cells from any woman's breast, Dr. Mina Bissell says, you would find a scattering of...

Thinking Outside the Cell

Why do we get cancer? For years, conventional wisdom held that cancer begins solely with a DNA mutation that causes cells to run amok...

Rolling in Green

Canadian e-cars come to B-town, invasive trees pegged as a top eco-fuel candidate, and a carbon calculator that multiplies guilt.

Apple Iz In Ur Christmaz Stocking, Taking Ur Monies

As all you Mac nerds know, today the ever-mysterious Cupertino-based Apple released like 375 new products, some of them expected, some of them not...

Happy Birthday, Hyphen

Hyphen magazine founder and ex-Express staff writer Melissa Hung led the Bay Area's charge to start a magazine that would attempt to relay, as...

Goodnight, Moon

Hey space fans and insomniacs! In the wee hours of Tuesday morning - aka tonight between about 2 a.m. and 4...

A Cure for All That Ails You?

Despite the healing powers of umbilical cord blood, those who pay thousands to bank it for the future may be the least likely to benefit. By Kara Platoni

In Search of the Raiders Mystique

Has anyone read the New York Times piece today on Oakland Raiders boss Al Davis? Now, I'm not a big sports...
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