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...ictions about the hottest tends at the frontier of biomedicine and separate myth from reality. As the enclosed program details, the speakers include Robert Langer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Valina Dawson of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Richard Mulligan of Children's Hospit...Medicine and biology take a lesson in physics
...hanged among scientists," says Dr Varmus, "Within biomedicine the full potential of electronic communication has...a commercial publisher. Open access publishing in biomedicine could also change the way science impacts on the general public who regularly interface with the pro...NIGMS awards 'Glue Grant' to create virtual cell
... pursuing some of the biggest unsolved problems in biomedicine today, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences has provided $5 million for the first of five years to a consortium of basic scientists called the Alliance for Cellular Signaling (AFCS). NIGMS anticipates spending a projected total of $25 ...Winners of the DFG Bioinformatics Initiative
...n extensive research activities in a wide range of biomedicine and informatics topics, is to be concentrated and supplemented by new departments yet to be set up. The university is co-operating closely with the Max Planck Society's local institutes. In promoting the five above-mentioned locations, the DFG is mak...The biological and toxin weapons convention an analysis
...to many years of renegotiations, during which time biomedicine is reaping the rewards of the genomic revolution. The absence of firm guidelines on biological weapons could result in rogue states developing new biological weapons. Dando and Whitby identify several areas of biological research that could be exploi...Rice center to study therapeutic and environmental imapct of nanotechnology
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...TON, Va. -- On topics ranging from mutant mice for biomedicine to pathogens without passports, the U.S.-European Commission (EC) Task Force on Biotechnology Research this week heard the latest on research bridging the Atlantic. At the meetings, held at the National Science Foundation (NSF) yesterday and Wednesda...Brown and MBL create an alliance for teaching and research
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