Articles by Paula Park

The ongoing Ebola epidemic in West Africa is drawing more money to study the virus, but what about funding for African science in general?

The ongoing Ebola epidemic in West Africa is drawing more money to study the virus, but what about funding for African science in general?

Policy would put NIH-funded papers on a searchable Web site 6 months after publication

Environmental groups threaten suit to block research institute's planned lab in Palm Beach

AAMC says that return on research investment should not be measured only by drug approvals

Material transfer agreements can be misunderstood or considered an annoyance, say officials

Publishers and editors meet Zerhouni plans for publicly available papers with exasperation

Setback for animal activists is met with praise by inventors of transgenic mouse

Experts applaud new guidelines, but wonder about their effectiveness

New policy leaving appointments up to a single political staffer draws sharp criticism

Protestors and industry wage rhetorical battles over the pros and cons of GM crops

At BIO, minister says gov't will take on board the advice of the BIGT working group

Agency hopes to reduce development costs by using diagnostic and imaging technologies

Courtesy of Chrissa KioussiLike ants marching to an unspoken command, embryonic heart cells follow distinct orders for organ formation, according to a group at the Pasteur Institute. Although many cardiac regulator genes have been isolated, researchers do not understand the cellular mechanisms that form a four-chambered heart from a simple tube. To track dividing cells in an embryonic mouse heart, researchers in Margaret Buckingham's lab created a transgenic line harboring an inactivated reporte

dimpleart.com Art Caplan Terri Schaivo lies on life support in a Florida hospital and Art Caplan has work to do: an appearance on CNN's Wolfe Blitzer Reports and telephone interviews with reporters from Time magazine and US News and World Report. A driver awaits Caplan in an immaculate blue Cadillac parked in front of Montreal's Ritz Carlton Hotel. Caplan is attending the annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) in Montreal, and the cable news network ha