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Live Scientists Society

By Daniel Kruh

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Revisiting Microarrays

By Leonard Augenlicht

[Published 6th October 2003]

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The International Lab

By Alexander Grimwade

[Published 6th October 2003]

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A Discriminating, yet Artificial Palate

By Silvia Sanides

[Published 6th October 2003]

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The Herpetological 'Hand'

By Maria Anderson

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Dance of the Yeast Genome

By Sam Jaffe

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Mildred Cohn

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Tissue Engineering Trends

By Aileen Constans

[Published 6th October 2003]

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What Question Would You Pose to a Dead Scientist?

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Drug Potential

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Sizing Up Nature's Denizens

By Philip Hunter

[Published 6th October 2003]

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The Secret Lives of Proteins

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Enzymatic Alter-Egos Unmasked

By Jack Lucentini

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Microbial Co-op in Evolution

By Eugene Russo

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Systems Biology Has its Backers and Attackers

By Mignon Fogarty

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Putting the Buzz in Navigation

By Bob Beale

[Published 6th October 2003]

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The Hunger Hormone Unharnessed

By Stuart Blackman

[Published 6th October 2003]

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The Spice Ain't Always So Nice; Three Methyls and You're Out; Interdisciplinary Research

By Ricki Lewis, Maria Anderson

[Published 6th October 2003]

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I Spy ... Something Green!; Soldering Issue; Putting a Pretty Face on Multiple Sequence Alignment

By Paula Park, Ivan Oransky, Sam Jaffe

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Body by Science

By Aileen Constans

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Scaling Up Cell Culture

By Josh Roberts

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Probing Ion Channel Function

By Aileen Constans

[Published 6th October 2003]

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A Clean Getaway

By Elizabeth Haserick

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Smooth Landing for Protein Arrays

By Aileen Constans

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Pointers for Would-Be Bioentrepreneurs; British Biologists Finally Bond; PhD Salaries by Age

By Mark Tang, Anna Fazackerley

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Putting his Mind to the British Science Machine

By Anna Fazackerley

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Berkeley Tenure Tiff Restarts GM Food Joust

By Sam Jaffe

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Emerald Isle of Opportunity

By Martina Habeck

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Sweet Charity: New Funds for Discovery

By Neil Canavan

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Midnight Oil Provides Too Little Light

By Christine Pullar

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Biology Is Hard

By TV Rajan

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Precious Right, Necessary Responsibilities

By Richard Gallagher

[Published 6th October 2003]

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The Conscience Clause: Keeping the Independent Scientist Extant

By Henri-Philippe Sambuc, ric Piguet

[Published 6th October 2003]

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From Cell Screen to the Big Screen

By Alexander Grimwade

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Marking the First Americans' Arrival

By Maria Anderson

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Harvesting Car Bodies and Airplane Wings

By Ed Ungar

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Pauling, Meselson, and Socrates

By Sam Jaffe

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Alice D. Sullivan

[Published 20th October 2003]

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It's All in the Translation

By Maria Anderson

[Published 20th October 2003]

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So They Say

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Arabidopsis in Blue

[Published 20th October 2003]

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November Calendar

By Christine Bahls

[Published 20th October 2003]

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How They Measure Up: Scientific Institutions

By Alexander Grimwade, Paula Park

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Best Places to Work in Academia: U.S. Rankings

By Maria Anderson

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Best Places to Work in Academia: Non-U.S. Rankings

By Maria Anderson, Paula Park

[Published 20th October 2003]

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How to Create the Best Workplace

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Genetic Testing Timeline

By Ricki Lewis

[Published 20th October 2003]

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A Genetic Checkup: Lessons from Huntington Disease and Cystic Fibrosis

By Ricki Lewis

[Published 20th October 2003]

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They Hibernate; Humans Trudge On

By Mignon Fogarty

[Published 20th October 2003]

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An Immunological Role in the CARDs

By Josh Roberts

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Research Briefs

By Maria Anderson, Sam Jaffe, Ricki Lewis

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Front Page

By Paula Park, Ivan Oransky, Sam Jaffe

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Coupling In Vitro Transcription and Translation

By Amy Adams

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Sorting Out Citation Management Software

By Mike May

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Six Degrees of Cytometry

By Aileen Constans

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Keen on Kinase Kits

By Hillary Sussman

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Chunkier Chips

By Jasmin Chua

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Protein Rainbow

By Jasmin Chua

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Front Page

By Michael Kalichman, Ted Agres

[Published 20th October 2003]

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FDA Caution Tempers Race For Generic Biologics

By Susan Warner

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Shuttle Squeezes Science in Space Program

By Sam Jaffe

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Journals 'Fess Up to Authors' Financial Conflicts

By Peg Brickley

[Published 20th October 2003]

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When Sharing Means Less for All

By Ted Agres

[Published 20th October 2003]

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DATA: Past Due

By Jill Adams

[Published 20th October 2003]

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A Team Cleaning

By Stephanie Mohr

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Individuality and Medicine

By Richard Gallagher

[Published 20th October 2003]

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If the NFL Can Do It, So Can Scientists

By Charles Romesburg

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Plagiarism in Higher Education: Is There a Remedy?

By Sudip Das

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Fowl Dentata

By Brian Mullin

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Graph Revisionism

By WR Klemm

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Not Unknown After All These Years

By Mason Meers

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Peace of Mind Gained

By Tamar Smith-Norowitz

[Published 20th October 2003]

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Damage limitation

By Stuart Blackman

[Published 1st October 2003]

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Biocontainment labs awarded

By Charles Choi

[Published 1st October 2003]

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Wellcome support for open access

By Stephen Pincock

[Published 1st October 2003]

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NIH presents new research 'roadmap'

By Eugene Russo

[Published 1st October 2003]

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Blakemore takes office

By Robert Walgate

[Published 1st October 2003]

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Full disclosure?

By Stephen Pincock

[Published 1st October 2003]

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Diabetic vascular damage

By Tudor Toma

[Published 2nd October 2003]

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A match made in mesoderm

By Joe Bateman

[Published 2nd October 2003]

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distance

By Cathy Holding

[Published 2nd October 2003]

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EU lacking neuro connections

By Xavier Bosch

[Published 2nd October 2003]

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Botox receptors: identification and inhibition

By Sean Lawler

[Published 3rd October 2003]

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Thalamic decoupling softens the blow

By Joanna Lyford

[Published 3rd October 2003]

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Noncoding conservation

By Cathy Holding

[Published 3rd October 2003]

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A plant nitric oxide synthase

By C Bishop

[Published 3rd October 2003]

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Protein database unveiled

By Charles Choi

[Published 3rd October 2003]

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White House seeks scientists' comments

By Ted Agres

[Published 3rd October 2003]

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The human genome on a chip

By Andrew Scott

[Published 3rd October 2003]

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Royal fury

By Robert Walgate

[Published 3rd October 2003]

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Bacterial protein secretion updated

By Andrea Rinaldi

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Mitochondrial ribosome structure mapped

By David Secko

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Bacterial insecticides

By Cathy Holding

[Published 6th October 2003]

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New grants tackle integration

By Maria Anderson

[Published 6th October 2003]

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Two MacArthur 'geniuses' advance genetics

By Tabitha Powledge

[Published 6th October 2003]

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MRI scientists win Nobel Prize

By Stephen Pincock

[Published 6th October 2003]

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France failing young scientists

By Jane Burgermeister

[Published 7th October 2003]

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ERC gains support

By Andrew Scott

[Published 8th October 2003]

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Best and worst of times for biomedical scientists

By Ted Agres

[Published 8th October 2003]

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Plant genomics gets $100 million infusion

By Charles Choi

[Published 8th October 2003]

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Not winning the Nobel

By Stephen Pincock

[Published 8th October 2003]

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Membrane channel work wins Nobel

By Alison McCook

[Published 8th October 2003]

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National Academy proposes scientists self-police

By John Dudley Miller

[Published 9th October 2003]

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Group petitions UN on cloning

By Jack Lucentini

[Published 10th October 2003]

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Hormone debate renewed

By Tabitha Powledge

[Published 10th October 2003]

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Canadian CDC proposed

By Ed Ungar

[Published 10th October 2003]

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Scripps on the Atlantic

By Charles Choi

[Published 14th October 2003]

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Scripps on the Atlantic

By Charles Choi

[Published 14th October 2003]

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names new editor

By Richard Robinson

[Published 15th October 2003]

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Americans unsure about GM foods

By Charles Choi

[Published 15th October 2003]

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Engineers consider ethics

By Eugene Russo

[Published 16th October 2003]

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Canadian investigators lose major perq

By Ed Ungar

[Published 16th October 2003]

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Mixed results in GM crop trial

By Robert Walgate

[Published 16th October 2003]

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laps up lipoic acid

By Tudor Toma

[Published 17th October 2003]

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Gene deserts bear fruit

By Cathy Holding

[Published 17th October 2003]

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Peace prevails at lab animal science meeting

By Alison McCook

[Published 17th October 2003]

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Austria OKs ion beam facility

By Ned Stafford

[Published 17th October 2003]

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Whitaker F'dn awards to end

By Maria Anderson

[Published 17th October 2003]

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Grand challenges issued

By Diane Martindale

[Published 17th October 2003]

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UK science tied-up in red tape

By Anna Fazackerley

[Published 21st October 2003]

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NIH to name extramural chief

By Ted Agres

[Published 21st October 2003]

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German cloning clash

By Ned Stafford

[Published 21st October 2003]

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Bioresearch key for EU defense

By Ned Stafford

[Published 22nd October 2003]

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Animal lab inquiry

By John Dudley Miller

[Published 22nd October 2003]

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Open access Europe

By Ned Stafford

[Published 22nd October 2003]

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NIH privatization under fire

By Merrill Goozner

[Published 22nd October 2003]

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Six percent in 6

By Cathy Holding

[Published 23rd October 2003]

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Researchers boycott Cell Press

By Alison McCook

[Published 23rd October 2003]

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Watson bobbles going fast

By Charles Choi

[Published 24th October 2003]

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Reinforced glass ceiling

By Anna Fazackerley

[Published 24th October 2003]

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National Medals for molecular biology

By Jack Lucentini

[Published 27th October 2003]

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Protection for vaccine makers

By Lynne Lederman

[Published 27th October 2003]

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Cash boost for vaccines

By Lynne Lederman

[Published 27th October 2003]

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Spanish stem cell battle

By Xavier Bosch

[Published 27th October 2003]

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Euro research area agreement

By Stephen Pincock

[Published 27th October 2003]

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Recipe for hearing cells

By Tudor Toma

[Published 28th October 2003]

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Novel biodegrading bacterium

By Cathy Holding

[Published 28th October 2003]

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Danes begin stem cell work

By Jane Burgermeister

[Published 28th October 2003]

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Urchin, meet starfish

By Cathy Holding

[Published 28th October 2003]

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Ag-science marketplace opens

By Charles Choi

[Published 28th October 2003]

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Duke primate center gets second chance

By Harvey Black

[Published 29th October 2003]

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'Select agent' clearances delayed

By Jeffrey Perkel

[Published 29th October 2003]

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Spain's GM controls attacked

By Jane Burgermeister

[Published 30th October 2003]

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Prion researcher awarded

By Ned Stafford

[Published 30th October 2003]

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Canadian stem cell bill passed

By Ed Ungar

[Published 30th October 2003]

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Science slowed by fires

By Eugene Russo

[Published 31st October 2003]

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Stem cells trickle into Germany

By Ned Stafford

[Published 31st October 2003]

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Irish science funds on 'pause'

By Amanda Haverty

[Published 31st October 2003]

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Clone products okay to eat

By Jack Lucentini

[Published 31st October 2003]