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According to the polling organization, the 1,254 respondents' age, sex, race, education, and region were weighted "to bring them into line with their actual proportions in the population." The margin of error for the survey is approximately 3 percent. Following are highlights of the survey: 91 percent of respondents said they believed the U.S. should spend more on medical research. Given a choice, 61 percent said the country shoul

"Gallo's meeting has juice, that's what it's got," declares Cecil H. Fox, an experimental pathologist, biochemist, and 20-year NIH veteran who is now president of Molecular Histology Laboratories Inc., Gaithersburg, Md. "That is, there's a lot of interpersonal contact, there are colorful people that go to it, there are discussions, disagreements, and, frequently, hard feelings and good feelings that come out of it. It's what scienti

"We are trying to make a statistics program that everyone can use, and Windows, in particular, is helping us do that," says Paul Portrey, assistant manager of technical support at Stat-Soft Inc. in Tulsa, Okla. "If developers take advantage of the features of Windows, they can make a package that's very easy to work with." Windows is not an operating system but an add-on to the DOS operating system that drives IBM and compatible PCs

In 1993, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declined to approve Malvern, Pa.-based Centocor Inc.'s lead compound, Centoxin, sending the company into a near-fatal financial tailspin. Today, after a drastic retrenching, Centocor has recovered to be listed as one of the top 10 biotechnology firms by market valuation in the Ernst and Young report "Biotech '95: Reform, Restruc- ture, Renewal." A new angioplasty therapeutic called R

President Clinton's choices for the winners of the 1994-95 Enrico Fermi Award--Freeman Dyson, a professor, emeritus, of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and Liane B. Russell, a geneticist who is a senior corporate fellow at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee--reflect a changing attitude on the part of the United States government about the benefits of nuclear power, say some scientists. Th

The program, called the Joint and Co-Sponsored U.N. Program on HIV/AIDS, was first proposed by the World Health Organization's (WHO) executive board of directors in January of this year. It was given final approval by the U.N. Economic and Social Council last month. Expected to be fully functional by January 1996, the program would link AIDS-related activities of six participating organizations: WHO; the World Bank; the U.N. Educati

The World Health Organization (WHO), based in Geneva, will back large-scale clinical trials of two experimental HIV vaccines that failed earlier this year to win similar approval in the United States. In June, Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), chose not to support the complex and costly trials because "the science wasn't there to justify it." Each vaccine relies on stimul

David M. Goldenberg, president of the Garden State Cancer Center, a cancer research institution in Newark, N.J., and Jean-Pierre Mach, a professor of biochemistry in the faculty of medicine at Lausanne University, Switzerland--were honored last month with the 1994 Abbott Award. The award was presented at the 22nd meeting of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology (ISOBM), held in Groningen, the Netherlands. ISOBM, cu

Sidebar:Federal Research Funding Though many express general satisfaction with allocations, some observers warn of tough funding battles ahead The 1995 federal budget process has produced its traditional share of beneficiaries and victims, champions and critics. Some, for example, are heartened by a 14 percent funding increase for the National Science Foundation, while others view a modest budget raise for the National Institutes

Scientists say launching Of the Hawaiian facilityis also a major step in restructuring of U.S.defense research efforts Scientists and government officials expect a recently launched United States Air Force supercomputer center in Hawaii--equipped with one of the world's most powerful parallel-processing computers, one of only two of its kind anywhere--to forge far-reaching collaborations among academic, industry, and government sc

Department of Energy -Energy supply R&D 3,224 3,424 3,315 -Gen. Sci & Res. 1,615 1,074 984 National Aeronautics and Space Administration --Space station R&D 1,940 1,890 1,890 --Science, aeronautics, 5,788 5,901 5,901 and technology National Institute of Standards and Technology 520 935 855 Environmental Protection Agency (R&D) 338 364 350 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 227 238 259 Department of

David M. Goldenberg, president of the Garden State Cancer Center, a cancer research institution in Newark, N.J., and Jean-Pierre Mach, a professor of biochemistry in the faculty of medicine at Lausanne University, Switzerland--were honored last month with the 1994 Abbott Award. The award was presented at the 22nd meeting of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology (ISOBM), held in Groningen, the Netherlands. ISOBM, cu