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Botulism from Blubber

By Ricki Lewis

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Carl Linnaeus, 1707-1778

[Published 10th March 2003]

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RNA Interference Maintained in Stem Cells

By Ricki Lewis

[Published 10th March 2003]

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NMR: Spin Doctoring

By Steve Bunk

[Published 10th March 2003]

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What's the most creative way you've seen of cutting lab costs?

[Published 10th March 2003]

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The Joseph McPartlin Selection

By Joseph Mcpartlin

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Life Science Sojourners

[Published 10th March 2003]

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So They Say

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Will Walls Come Tumbling Down?

By Richard Gallagher

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Letters

By Barry Palevitz

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Frequent Flyer Bugs

By Mikael Ros

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Just Politics

By David Bump

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Foundations and Research Decisions

By Richard Klausner

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Proteomic Players Pick Plasma

By Steve Bunk

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Technologies Vie for Dominance

By Jeffrey Perkel

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Automating 2-D Gel Electrophoresis

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Science Seen; Models and Targets; Interdisciplinary Research

By Brendan Maher

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Microbes Rule

By Leslie Pray

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Exploring the Microbial World

By Harvey Black

[Published 10th March 2003]

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AID and Its Impact on Antibody Genetic Alteration

By Josh Roberts

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Some Viruses Elicit Immune Response Before Entering Cell; Suburban Sprawl Could Increase Lyme Disease Infections; Human Pediatric Anesthetics Damage Murine Model Brains

By Harvey Black, Myrna Watanabe, Hal Cohen

[Published 10th March 2003]

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An Eternal Fluorescent Protein?; Model Behavior; Compacting DNA Shrinks Gene Therapy Barriers

By Brendan Maher, Jeffrey Perkel, Ivan Oransky

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Long-suffering Lipids Gain Respect

By Jennifer Fisher Wilson

[Published 10th March 2003]

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The Proteomics Toolbox

By Aileen Constans

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Save the Mice

By Jane Salodof Macneil

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Education for Would-Be Entrepreneurs; Ethics for Academics; Dancing to DNA

By Steven Burrill, Kelli Miller

[Published 10th March 2003]

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America's Towers of Exclusion

By Dana Wilkie

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Patent Rights Wrangle Puts Law In Question

By Peg Brickley

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Basic Science in US Universities Can Infringe Patents

By Ed Ergenzinger, Murray Spruill

[Published 10th March 2003]

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No Pardon For Poor English in Science

By Sam Jaffe

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Fate, Flack and Flair

By Margaret Robinson

[Published 10th March 2003]

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On Choosing Children

By Stephanie Mohr

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Adding Style to Scientific Papers

By Steve Bunk

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Why Do Scientists Join Societies?

By Alexander Grimwade

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Fleeing Monkey Fuels Simmering Fire

By Hal Cohen

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Rita Colwell

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Elizabeth Blackburn

[Published 24th March 2003]

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So They Say

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Tight Squeeze

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Nonribosomal Peptide Synthesis

By Jeffrey Perkel

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Tobacco Settlement Spending Plans in Ashes

By Richard Gallagher

[Published 24th March 2003]

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A New Project Could Fulfill a Promise

By Joseph Perpich

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Getting It Wrong

[Published 24th March 2003]

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On the Postdoc Plantation

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Reviewing Peer Review

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Necessary Ambassadors

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Null or Nil

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Depending on Cigarettes, Counting on Science

By Mignon Fogarty

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Public Health and Smoking Cessation

By Mignon Fogarty

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Can Science Make Cigarettes Safer?

By Mignon Fogarty

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Smoking Out Skin Cancer; Evolution in Action; Colon Cancer Resistance Found in Traveler's Diarrhea

By Susan Jenkins, Leslie Pray, Brendan Maher

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Obesity's Risks Include Cancer, Too

By Douglas Steinberg

[Published 24th March 2003]

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The Strange World of LPXTGase

By Nicole Johnston

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Deciphering Death's Circuitry

By Ricki Lewis

[Published 24th March 2003]

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DNA Detection Without PCR; Sequence-Analysis Beerware; Shuffling the Genome Deck

By Brendan Maher, David Bradley, Ivan Oransky

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Quantitative Image Analysis Gives More Power to the Pathologist

By Susan Jenkins

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Advancing with Gel Documentation Systems

By Jeremy Peirce

[Published 24th March 2003]

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MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry Moves Forward

By Aileen Constans

[Published 24th March 2003]

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cDNA Library Construction sans Restriction Enzymes

By Jeffrey Perkel

[Published 24th March 2003]

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ABI Poised to Break the SNP Genotyping Speed Barrier?

By Deborah Stull

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Defining the Dance of Molecules; How to Stem Seduction; The Prince, the Professor, and the Pea (GM Pea, that is)

By Virginia Ashby Sharpe, Phillip Hunter

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Postdocs: Pawing Out of Purgatory

By Sam Jaffe, Paula Park

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Foreign Scientists Steer Away from States

By Dana Wilkie

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Be a Stress Buster

By Bob Calandra

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Fascination and Faith

By Utpal Banerjee

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Be Web Savvy and People Smart; Fascination and Faith

By Karen Young Kreeger

[Published 24th March 2003]

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The Mythical Scientist Shortage

By Daniel Greenberg

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Scientists Want to be Noticed

By Alexander Grimwade

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Porcine Parts on the Horizon?

By Ricki Lewis

[Published 24th March 2003]

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See-through Mummies

By Hal Cohen

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Discovery of the First Angiogenic Factor

By Judah Folkman

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Molecular crossroads

By Tudor Toma

[Published 3rd March 2003]

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Yale students strike

By Catherine Zandonella

[Published 3rd March 2003]

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Alleged fraud cover-up revealed

By Peg Brickley

[Published 3rd March 2003]

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Mapping protein folds

By Andrea Rinaldi

[Published 5th March 2003]

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Post-genome project launches

By Leslie Pray

[Published 5th March 2003]

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Research cuts will damage health

By Helen Gavaghan

[Published 5th March 2003]

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Reverse evolution

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 6th March 2003]

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More roles for sonic hedgehog

By Tudor Toma

[Published 6th March 2003]

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Sleeping sickness foe unmasked

By Andrea Rinaldi

[Published 6th March 2003]

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Passive immunization in prion disease

By Tudor Toma

[Published 6th March 2003]

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EC highlights problems with biotech progress

By Andrew Scott

[Published 6th March 2003]

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Counting vertebrate microRNAs

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 7th March 2003]

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Keeping an eye on glaucoma

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 7th March 2003]

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Norovirus infection model

By Tudor Toma

[Published 7th March 2003]

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Gut up and go

By Richard Robinson

[Published 7th March 2003]

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Ethics council mulls aging research

By Hannah Kamenetsky

[Published 7th March 2003]

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EU rules out go-ahead for GM crops before fall

By Pat Hagan

[Published 7th March 2003]

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Cox-2 patent case thrown out

By Peg Brickley

[Published 7th March 2003]

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Have a HaploCHIP

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Imprinted by Eed

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Mitochondrial maternal guidance

By Joe Bateman

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Antibiotic resistance modeling

By Tudor Toma

[Published 10th March 2003]

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GM crop controls

By Hannah Kamenetsky

[Published 10th March 2003]

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Inflammation depends on HIF

By Richard Robinson

[Published 11th March 2003]

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Revisiting Bermuda

By Tabitha Powledge

[Published 11th March 2003]

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Attack on panel politics

By Peg Brickley

[Published 12th March 2003]

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Vesicle age regulates exocytosis

By Andrea Rinaldi

[Published 13th March 2003]

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Cuckoo arms race

By Richard Robinson

[Published 13th March 2003]

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Emphysema's smoking gun

By Richard Robinson

[Published 13th March 2003]

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Modest, neglected DNA pioneer dies

By Robert Walgate

[Published 13th March 2003]

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Controversial AIDS scientist prompts outcry

By Jacqui Wise

[Published 13th March 2003]

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Shaping a snapdragon

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 14th March 2003]

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Repairing retinal damage

By Tudor Toma

[Published 14th March 2003]

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Not mushroom for maneuver

By Richard Robinson

[Published 14th March 2003]

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Peeking into cytokinesis

By Andrea Rinaldi

[Published 14th March 2003]

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Basic research meets biodefense

By Eugene Russo

[Published 14th March 2003]

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Funding council asked to rethink policy

By Helen Gavaghan

[Published 14th March 2003]

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Pancreatic teamwork

By Tudor Toma

[Published 17th March 2003]

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Creator of world's largest rainforest preserve dies

By Fred Powledge

[Published 17th March 2003]

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Postdocs unite

By Ben Shouse

[Published 17th March 2003]

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Silence, Sir!

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 18th March 2003]

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Defying Lou Gehrig

By Andrea Rinaldi

[Published 18th March 2003]

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Giving grant proposals a second chance

By Peg Brickley

[Published 18th March 2003]

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Hunt for SARS agent intensifies

By Robert Walgate

[Published 18th March 2003]

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All that antisense

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 19th March 2003]

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Quantitative gene expression

By Richard Robinson

[Published 20th March 2003]

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Puncture repair kit

By Tudor Toma

[Published 20th March 2003]

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Opposing forces combine

By Joe Bateman

[Published 20th March 2003]

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HIV's sugar shield

By Tudor Toma

[Published 20th March 2003]

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First line of defense

By Andrea Rinaldi

[Published 20th March 2003]

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EU science and technology check-up

By Andrew Scott

[Published 20th March 2003]

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Guangdong doctor linked to SARS outbreak

By Robert Walgate

[Published 20th March 2003]

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Back and forth with Eph and Ephrin

By Richard Robinson

[Published 21st March 2003]

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Six legs good

By Richard Robinson

[Published 21st March 2003]

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NIH under the microscope

By Ted Agres

[Published 21st March 2003]

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Scientists scrutinize biopharming

By Emma Hitt

[Published 21st March 2003]

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Cox-2 confusion

By Peg Brickley

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Early inklings about SARS

By Emma Hitt

[Published 24th March 2003]

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Cloning patent claim rejected

By Peg Brickley

[Published 25th March 2003]

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Cause of SARS still uncertain

By Robert Walgate

[Published 25th March 2003]

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Ethics and war challenge biologists

By Eugene Russo

[Published 25th March 2003]

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MRC under attack

By Pat Hagan

[Published 25th March 2003]

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Pseudoscience applied to scientists

By Peg Brickley

[Published 26th March 2003]

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US hopes to lure Iraqi scientists

By Ted Agres

[Published 26th March 2003]

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Gill specific glutamine synthetase

By Andrea Rinaldi

[Published 27th March 2003]

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Brightening NEON's prospects

By Eugene Russo

[Published 27th March 2003]

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Select-agent security checks

By Peg Brickley

[Published 27th March 2003]

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Foul-ups test foreign students and schools

By Willie Schatz

[Published 27th March 2003]

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Members of the gut community

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 28th March 2003]

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Bruce Alberts questions Bioethics Council

By Eugene Russo

[Published 28th March 2003]

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B.subtilis

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 31st March 2003]

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Precise targeting in Parkinson's

By Tudor Toma

[Published 31st March 2003]

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Cell fusion repairs liver

By Tudor Toma

[Published 31st March 2003]