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Lisa Conti trained at the University of California, Santa Barbara as a scientist in the Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology Department and worked at UCSB as a post doctoral fellow and project scientist. She is currently staying home with her two children and working as a freelance science writer.
Also by this Author
Project Keeps Sky Watchers in Eternal Dark
Surveillance around the clock is offered to schoolchildren and astrophysicists via Internet-linked telescopes girding the globe.
David's Mirror: Illusions and Pain Perception
A mirror and massage curtail pain in a case where strong and dangerous pain drugs had failed.
A New Leaf: Making Paper From Weeds
An invasive ecological bad guy may be able to paper over his evil ways and absorb some carbon as well.
Sexy Impulses: Treating Multiple Sclerosis with Hormones
Hormones increasingly are shown to affect brain functions, and now they may battle MS symptoms, too.
Naked Pleasure
They're anything but warm and fuzzy. Wrinkled, bald with slits for eyes, naked mole rats huddle together underground for warmth. While they have no hair, poor eyesight, an unregulated body temperature and no pain sensation in their skin, these critters have something that most rats, most mammals in fact, don't -- a remarkable, eusocial, home life.