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Proposals from researchers receiving more than $1 million a year in NIH funding will be carefully picked over to avoid overlap with ongoing research.
The rise in the amount of federal money requested through research grants is due to a rise in the overall number of applicants.
The first full computer model of a single-celled organism mimics the bacterium’s behaviors and paves the way to more complete disease models.
Rather than rely on plant-derived products, biotech companies are engineering bacteria and yeast to produce ingredients for fragrances.
Peptides extracted from scorpion venom fights off drug-resistant bacterial infections in mice.
The United Kingdom's Wellcome Trust announces that it will begin sanctioning researchers who do not submit manuscripts to the public UK PubMed Central database.
Wales creates a database of DNA barcodes for all of its native flowering plants, hoping to guide conservation and drug development efforts.
Researchers pull viable cells from bodies that had been dead for more than 2 weeks.
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