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The Scientist on the Web

By Alexander Grimwade, Eugene Garfield

[Published 19th August 2002]

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Wishful Thinking and Semantic Specificity

By Neil Greenspan

[Published 19th August 2002]

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More on Pew

By Lynn Goldman

[Published 19th August 2002]

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For Beneficence, Let Cloning for Research Continue

By Ted Peters, Gaymon Bennett

[Published 19th August 2002]

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Detective Rummage Investigates

By Sydney Brenner

[Published 19th August 2002]

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Information Overload

By Mignon Fogarty, Christine Bahls

[Published 19th August 2002]

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When a Rose Must Be Called a Rose

By Paula Park

[Published 19th August 2002]

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Researchers Blast Open Pathogen Genome

By Barry Palevitz

[Published 19th August 2002]

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Bio-Psycho-Social: All Relevant in Space

By A J S Rayl

[Published 19th August 2002]

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Rotavirus Vaccines, Take Two

By Bob Beale

[Published 19th August 2002]

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Evolutionists Present Their 1.3% Solution

By Leslie Pray

[Published 19th August 2002]

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Flipping the Fat-Sensing Switch

By Brendan Maher

[Published 19th August 2002]

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Evolution at Warp Speed

By Laura Defrancesco

[Published 19th August 2002]

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Get with the Program

By Barbara Cunningham

[Published 19th August 2002]

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Making Hypoxia Happen

By Susan Jenkins

[Published 19th August 2002]

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Mix Two Parts Quadrupole, One Part Ion Trap, and Stir

By Jeffrey Perkel

[Published 19th August 2002]

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The One-Stop Print Shop

By Aileen Constans

[Published 19th August 2002]

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PIP, PIP, Hooray!

By Aileen Constans

[Published 19th August 2002]

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Cot Analysis Stages a Revival

By Ricki Lewis

[Published 19th August 2002]

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Patent Costs Pending

By Sam Jaffe

[Published 19th August 2002]

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Moving from Minion to Manager

By Bob Calandra, Paula Park

[Published 19th August 2002]

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Of Bosses and Biotechs

By Dennis Mccoy

[Published 19th August 2002]

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Universities War with Big Pharma

By Ted Agres

[Published 19th August 2002]

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Killing Time

By Hal Cohen

[Published 19th August 2002]

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Ruth Bishop

By Bob Beale

[Published 19th August 2002]

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Frontlines

By A J S Rayl, Eugene Russo, Hal Cohen, Paula Park, Aileen Constans

[Published 19th August 2002]

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Runt repression

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 1st August 2002]

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How Golgi grows

By David Bruce

[Published 1st August 2002]

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MPs report on UK's Royal Society

By Helen Gavaghan

[Published 1st August 2002]

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NIH could face reorganization

By Eugene Russo

[Published 1st August 2002]

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Genotype and violence

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 2nd August 2002]

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Growing up baby oocytes

By Tudor Toma

[Published 2nd August 2002]

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A new limb formation model

By Tudor Toma

[Published 2nd August 2002]

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tricks

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 5th August 2002]

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Understanding Wilms' progression

By Tudor Toma

[Published 5th August 2002]

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Drugging NKT cells

By Tudor Toma

[Published 5th August 2002]

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Mouse map

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 6th August 2002]

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Cytomegaloviruses nuclear drill

By Tudor Toma

[Published 6th August 2002]

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Src's role in spreading cancer

By Tudor Toma

[Published 6th August 2002]

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Silencing in mice

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 7th August 2002]

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Cellular genomics

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 7th August 2002]

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More on tumor suppression

By Tudor Toma

[Published 7th August 2002]

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DIY brain repair

By Tudor Toma

[Published 7th August 2002]

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Drug discovery tools questioned

By Scott Gottlieb

[Published 7th August 2002]

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Appetite's third way

By Tudor Toma

[Published 8th August 2002]

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High affinity IL-2 inhibitor

By Laura DeFrancesco

[Published 8th August 2002]

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Human variation

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 9th August 2002]

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Bone-marrow cells repair ischaemic legs

By Tudor Toma

[Published 9th August 2002]

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PTEN guards against breast cancer

By Tudor Toma

[Published 9th August 2002]

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US stem cell rules clarified

By Peg Brickley

[Published 9th August 2002]

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Small molecule microarrays

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 12th August 2002]

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Growing the ungrowable

By Tudor Toma

[Published 12th August 2002]

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Revised Th1 memory model

By Tudor Toma

[Published 12th August 2002]

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Leukemia in Down syndrome X-linked

By Tudor Toma

[Published 12th August 2002]

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Balanced amplification

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 13th August 2002]

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Toxic metabolite causes ADA immunosuppression

By Tudor Toma

[Published 13th August 2002]

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Short cut to neuron differentiation

By Tudor Toma

[Published 13th August 2002]

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Pharming human antibodies

By Tudor Toma

[Published 13th August 2002]

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US lawyers mull cloning

By Diane Martindale

[Published 13th August 2002]

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Cathepsin S holds up autoimmunity

By Tudor Toma

[Published 14th August 2002]

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Targeting key enzyme reduces body fat

By Tudor Toma

[Published 14th August 2002]

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Merger mystery

By Pat Hagan

[Published 14th August 2002]

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Group says NSF shorts biology

By Harvey Black

[Published 14th August 2002]

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Sperm factories get under the skin

By Tudor Toma

[Published 15th August 2002]

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Molecular evolution of language

By Michaela Torkar

[Published 15th August 2002]

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Slow, slow, twitch, twitch, slow

By David Bruce

[Published 16th August 2002]

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NO and neuronal cell death

By David Bruce

[Published 16th August 2002]

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Venter in new venture

By Jim Kling

[Published 16th August 2002]

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Detecting allelic variations in expression

By Michaela Torkar

[Published 16th August 2002]

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RNA effective against brain cancer

By Tudor Toma

[Published 19th August 2002]

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Small detail makes big difference

By Tudor Toma

[Published 19th August 2002]

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Lawyers oppose ban on cloning

By Diane Martindale

[Published 19th August 2002]

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New, tacky oncogenes

By Tudor Toma

[Published 20th August 2002]

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Distinct Ras requirements

By Tudor Toma

[Published 20th August 2002]

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Failure for EGFR inhibitor

By Emma Hitt

[Published 20th August 2002]

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Gene therapy monkey business

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 21st August 2002]

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Transgene switch

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 21st August 2002]

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T cells keep the memory alive

By Tudor Toma

[Published 21st August 2002]

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New Smithsonian science chief

By Christine Soares

[Published 21st August 2002]

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Microsporidial mitochondrial remnants

By David Bruce

[Published 22nd August 2002]

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Hear today, gone the day after tomorrow

By Tudor Toma

[Published 22nd August 2002]

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Paternal mitochondrial DNA?

By Tudor Toma

[Published 22nd August 2002]

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Enzyme detects and kills anthrax

By Nicole Johnston

[Published 22nd August 2002]

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German biotech disappointed with government

By Martina Habeck

[Published 22nd August 2002]

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GM animals could threaten environment

By Tabitha Powledge

[Published 22nd August 2002]

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Laying down the jaw

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 23rd August 2002]

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Envelope clue to general HIV vaccine

By Tudor Toma

[Published 23rd August 2002]

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Fungal double whammy

By Tudor Toma

[Published 23rd August 2002]

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Bone to brain change fails

By Tudor Toma

[Published 23rd August 2002]

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Pleistocene Park?

By Karen Hopkin

[Published 23rd August 2002]

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Tech giants funding life science

By Laura DeFrancesco

[Published 23rd August 2002]

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Small RNAs in yeast

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 27th August 2002]

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Chicken flu circumvents cytokines

By Tudor Toma

[Published 27th August 2002]

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Telomerase shuttling

By Tudor Toma

[Published 27th August 2002]

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BRCA1 enhances repair

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 27th August 2002]

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Animal applications easier

By Jim Kling

[Published 27th August 2002]

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Parkinson's Disease initiative

By Laura DeFrancesco

[Published 27th August 2002]

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Monsanto's misery

By Pat Hagan

[Published 27th August 2002]

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HIV favors active genes

By Tudor Toma

[Published 28th August 2002]

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Australia mulls stem cell law

By Leigh Dayton

[Published 28th August 2002]

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Muscling in on chromosomal clusters

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 29th August 2002]

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RAF, RAS and mismatch repair

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 29th August 2002]

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Preparedness council meets

By Eugene Russo

[Published 29th August 2002]

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Stopping hedgehogs

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 30th August 2002]

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Anthrax-induced apoptosis

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 30th August 2002]