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Creating a health-research counterpart to DARPA, the Pentagon's legendary Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, makes tremendous sense. DARPA, the freewheeling, cash-laden nest of sci-tech wizards, sired the Internet, stealth technology, the global positioning system, the Predator unmanned aircraft, and many more innovations throughout the Cold War and beyond. Call the biomedical version BARPA, and let it roll. Great. But if it's going to happen--and there's currently an influential prop

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NIH symposium tackles difficult networking and reliability issues in computational research

FDA advisory committee not satisfied with available data on cloned animal products

CDC, USDA to offer provisional clearances if background checks remain incomplete

New Energy Department facility will be home to entirely new collection of pathogen-free mice

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