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UK Biosciences Federation to be inaugurated next week will represent 61,000 life scientists

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Pathfinder in pharmacology brought rigor to the study of drug effectiveness

NIH awards $350 million for biodefense and emerging diseases research

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Foundations | Little Green Bacteria Click for larger version of notes (68K) When I first heard Paul Brehm [then at Tufts University] mention green fluorescent protein at a seminar in the late 1980s, I got excited; I knew it had the potential to be an expression marker. I talked with Doug Prasher, who was trying to isolate a gfp cDNA, and we promised to keep in touch. But we lost track of each other after I married and went to do my sabbatical at my wife's university. In September 1992, I