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Musical Chairs Another Electoral Battle Job Security PCAST Session Online Headaches New Year's Persecutions Date: November 28, 1994, pp.4 The Republican electoral earthquake that rumbled through Capitol Hill this month will result in the unseating from committee chairs of veteran Demo-crats, including Rep. George E. Brown, Jr., widely recognized as Congress' "Mr. Science." Brown has headed the House Science, Space, and Technolo

Blueprints for a Greenhouse Long plagued by logistical problems and dogged by controversy, the troubled Biosphere 2, under new management, is attempting to revitalize one of the most criticized aspects of the program--the quality of its science. Since the summer, more than a dozen geologists, biogeochemists, ecologists, and climate modelers have visited the 3.15-acre Oracle, Ariz., facility--the world's largest enclosed artificial

Adolfo J. deBold, a professor of pathology and physiology at the University of Ottawa and director of research at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute in Ontario, Canada, and Ervin G. Erdos, a professor of pharmacology and anesthesiology and director of the Peptide Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, have received the Ciba Award for Hypertension Research. Cosponsored by the Houston-bas

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Back to:New Funds Possible for Embryo Research The ethical reasoning of the panel advising the National Institutes of Health on human embryo research was clearly expressed by its policy cochairwoman at a news conference at which the group's report was released in September. "The basic finding of the panel is that it is acceptable public policy to fund research on the human embryo, subject to stringent guidelines," said Pa

Adolfo J. deBold, a professor of pathology and physiology at the University of Ottawa and director of research at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute in Ontario, Canada, and Ervin G. Erdos, a professor of pharmacology and anesthesiology and director of the Peptide Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, have received the Ciba Award for Hypertension Research. Cosponsored by the Houston-bas

Colleagues Laud 1994 Nobelists As Overdue For Coveted Prize Author: Edward R. Silverman Date: November 28, 1994 Colleagues of the recently announced winners of the 1994 Nobel Prizes in chemistry, physics, and medicine or physiology, in praising the decisions of the Nobel committee, say the coveted Swedish honor is long overdue for each of this year's recipients. For their part, the winners are using their newfound re

Musical Chairs Another Electoral Battle Job Security PCAST Session Online Headaches New Year's Persecutions Date: November 28, 1994, pp.4 The Republican electoral earthquake that rumbled through Capitol Hill this month will result in the unseating from committee chairs of veteran Demo-crats, including Rep. George E. Brown, Jr., widely recognized as Congress' "Mr. Science." Brown has headed the House Science, Space, and Technolo

Blueprints for a Greenhouse Long plagued by logistical problems and dogged by controversy, the troubled Biosphere 2, under new management, is attempting to revitalize one of the most criticized aspects of the program--the quality of its science. Since the summer, more than a dozen geologists, biogeochemists, ecologists, and climate modelers have visited the 3.15-acre Oracle, Ariz., facility--the world's largest enclosed artificial

Sidebar:A New Look For Summary Statements Sidebar: What is Triage? The expanded use of triage--under which certain grant applications deemed to be "noncompetitive" (NC) are not discussed in study sections--by the National Institutes of Health Division of Research Grants (DRG) has met with enthusiasic response from many NIH administrators. The new system, however, has engendered controversy in the extramural community. NIH welcomes

The moratorium on human embryo research coincided with the Republican presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George Bush. Both administrations opposed abortion, with support from some conservative political and religious groups, based on the view that human life begins when the ovum is fertilized and that the resulting embryo has legal rights to protection similar to those of an infant, child, or adult. In recent years, the Bush administ

Back To: Science Community Gives Mixed Reviews To 'Triage' The National Institutes of Health announced in the September 23 NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts that it will extend its use of a triage system to all investigator-initiated research grant (R01) and "FIRST Award" (First Independent Research Support and Transition Award, R29) applications submitted for October/November 1, 1994 receipt dates and reviewed by the NIH