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Severed axons regrow to target

Scientists have met one of the long-standing challenges of regenerative medicine: For the first time, they have succeeded in coaxing an injured spinal cord to regenerate sensory axons in rats that reinnervate the specific place they would need to ...

From ALISON MCCOOK, The Scientist,  3 Aug 2009

NIH budget tweaked

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From ALISON MCCOOK, The Scientist,  30 Jul 2009

Life after fraud

Each year, the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI) investigates dozens of charges of scientific misconduct. And each year, the ORI adds a handful of names to a list of researchers found guilty of falsifying figures, fabricating data, or committing ...

From ALISON MCCOOK, The Scientist,  2 Jul 2009
Related Topics: John Franklin,  Google Inc.,  Touro College,  National Institutes of Health,  Harvard University

New non-drug fix for HIV?

Researchers are slowly establishing a connection between an extremely rare genetic disease and HIV -- and homing in on a safe, non-prescription compound that could treat both. Recently, James Hildreth at the Meharry Medical College School of Medicine ...

From ALISON MCCOOK, The Scientist,  28 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Food and Drug Administration,  National Institutes of Health

Is Murray hypoallergenic?

It was pouring rain the night that Eve Yohalem went to pick up her $6,000 kitten at the airport. She and her husband had been told to wait at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City, where the cat would be arriving on a cross-country flight from Los ...

From ALISON MCCOOK, The Scientist,  5 Jun 2009

Cuts in funding at Wellcome

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From ALISON MCCOOK, The Scientist,  13 Feb 2009

Journal plays with peer review

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From ALISON MCCOOK, The Scientist,  3 Feb 2009

Take drug additive, not drug?

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From ALISON MCCOOK, The Scientist,  22 Jan 2009

Varmus, Lubchenco top Obama team

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From ALISON MCCOOK, The Scientist,  22 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama

Twin disorders

hen you meet identical four-year old twins Addi and Cassi Hempel, you might notice something about the way they walk. They used to run around like other toddlers, but now they are more wobbly, more uncertain, and walk with their legs somewhat wide ...

From ALISON MCCOOK, The Scientist,  24 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Ara Parseghian,  National Institutes of Health,  Merck & Company, Inc.,  Albert Einstein,  University of Oxford

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