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February 2007
When lab relationships cool off and arguments heat up, what do you do? KERRY GRENS gets advice from lab heads who survived their bench battles. |
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The hypothesis: Steroid and peptide hormones in milk increase the risk of cancer. IVAN ORANSKY sifts through the data. 
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RELATED: Dairy economics: Milking blood from a stone Milk and human health: What's the state of the evidence linking milk to human disease? |
A culture of tough but supportive scrutiny has propelled imaginative research at the Carnegie Institution's embryology department for almost 95 years. BRENDAN MAHER finds out whether a modern architectural makeover could change all this. |
RELATED: Slideshow: A tour of Carnegie Institution of Washington embryology department Video: See the flatfish metamorphosis with commentary from Alex Schreiber |
The answer to stagnating R&D can be found in the creativity of the movie industry, according to a leading pharmaceutical company executive.
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Anthrax, tigers and bison; Snyder, sludge fighter; Disclosure for extramural NIH researchers? EDITORIAL Top of the PI wish list - Interpersonal skills: Making sure people work well together isn't just the right thing to do. It's the moral thing to do. COLUMNS 'Shroom science: Safe & effective? 50 years after its introduction to science, psilocybin returns to mainstream clinical research. Extreme recycling: The multiple uses of dung. OPINION A Portuguese science association reaches out: How do you change the public's perception of science in a country where it's not valued? Notebook The Agenda; Defending conservation (Slideshow: Bombs and biodiversity go hand in hand); Getting samples - and scammed; Milk: It's electric; The cow whisperer; Man's best virus Foundations Profiles JoAnne Stubbe's determination has unlocked the secrets of ribonucleotide reductase. Genzyme's CSO Alan Smith discovered the initiation codon and mapped out SV40 before entering a career in biotech. Scientist to Watch: James Whisstock found himself 21,000 kilometers from home without a principle investigator. Serpins kept him sane. The Literature Hot Paper: How searching for lipid antigens led to therapeutic applications in cancer and asthma. A transporter complex structure is retracted Elusive envelope glycoproteins Model of Ubx activation refuted Lab Tools What kind of mass spec user are you? Whether you're studying proteins, nucleic acids, or small molecules, there's an ideal mass spec configuration for everyone. CAREERS Making Outreach Work: STEVEN FARBER explains how a 'take-your-child-to-work' day helped launch a $200,000 education initiative. |
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