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A new play explores life, death, and biochemistry under Stalin
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Is this the world's only octogenarian early career scientist?
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No circ. clock for reindeer?
Arctic reindeer, which live most of the year in 24-hour darkness or daylight, may lack an internal clock
By Edyta Zielinska
Cancer biotech slashes R&D
Exelixis has cut 40 percent of its workforce, mostly in drug discovery, suggesting its unique approach did not pay off
By Edyta Zielinska
Cow vaccine pioneer dies
Walter Plowright helped eradicate so-called "cattle plague," rinderpest
By Lauren Urban
New model org? Cluck cluck
New research probing chicken's DNA may point to an expansion of another role for the flightless fowl: biomedical model organism
By Bob Grant
Stem cell regs to become law?
New legislation would codify last year's executive order, which overturned the limitations implemented by former President George Bush
By Jef Akst
To join or not to join
The benefits of membership to a scientific society are decreasing every year. Lately, I'm asking: Why bother?
By Steven Wiley
Porn: Good for us?
Scientific examination of the subject has found that as the use of porn increases, the rate of sex crimes goes down
By Milton Diamond
Defunct CF drug reborn
When a company we profiled last year went belly up, so did its drug - until it was revived by a new company
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