House Science Chair Lamar Smith Slashing Science Budget
0Representative Lamar Smith (R–TX) has never hidden his anti-science leanings as well as a desire to reshape federal research policy since he became chair of the House...
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Possible progress against Parkinson’s
0Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at University-affiliated McLean Hospital have taken what they describe as an important step toward using the implantation of stem cell-generated...
A new stem cell advance
0Collaborating with scientists from New York, Toronto, and Tokyo, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers have devised two methods for using stem cells to generate the...
Measles Outbreaks Shows Potential Dangers of Conspiracy Nutters
0Conspiracy whack jobs have always lived among us. I imagine there were even some neanderthals with some interesting theories. After 9/11 you heard them tell us...
Obama’s EPA breaks pledge to divorce politics from science on toxic chemicals
0By David Heath In his first inaugural address, between promising to fix the economy and lower the cost of health care, President Barack Obama made this...
Breakthrough on chronic pain
0For the first time, scientists have found evidence of neuroinflammation in key regions of the brains of patients with chronic pain, according to a new study...
Je Suis Charlie. Vive La France!
0Pour mes chers amis en France Je suis un Américain et aussi un francophile. Le français était la première langue étrangère que j’ai appris. Je n’ai...
Kepler ‘rising from the ashes’
0To paraphrase Mark Twain, the report of the Kepler spacecraft’s death was greatly exaggerated. Despite a malfunction that ended its primary mission in May 2013, Kepler...
Creating ‘genomic origami’
0In a triumph for cell biology, researchers have assembled the first high-resolution, 3-D maps of entire folded genomes and found a structural basis for gene regulation,...
Did you know you can vastly improve your memory?
0If you ask people what is most important in life to them you will likely get a range of answers. Depending on how you precisely phrase...