Topic: National Institutes Of Health
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Spending 50 minutes with a cellphone plastered to your ear is enough to change brain cell activity in the part of the brain closest to the antenna.But whether that causes any harm is not clear, scientists at the National ...
In an ironic twist, the institute that employs James Sherley, one of two scientists who sued to block federally funded stem cell research, is weighing in on the other side. Today, the Boston Biomedical Research Institute (BBRI) asked to support the government's ...
New clue to self-tolerance Researchers identify a new population of regulatory T cells, important players in immunological self-tolerance, which can be induced by cytokine interleukin IL-35. , "Activation of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor induces human type 1 regulatory T cell-like and Foxp3(+) ...
Federal officials are still stumbling in their efforts to analyze the risks of operating a high-security biology lab in Boston that would study dangerous pathogens such as Ebola virus and anthrax, says the National Research Council (NRC). The National Institutes of Health ...
As a rocket scientist, Democratic Rep. Rush Holt has now served the 12th Congressional District of New Jersey for more than a decade. Holt recently won his seventh consecutive term during the Nov. 4, 2010, midterm elections. LiveScience took the opportunity to ...
Rodbell, Martin (1925-1998) was an American biochemist. He shared the prize with the American physician Alfred Goodman Gilman, whose work proved Rodbell's theory explaining such mechanisms.. From 1956 to 1985, he was a biochemical researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...
Nirenberg, Marshall Warren (1927-), an American biochemist, shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his role in deciphering the genetic code. A native New Yorker, as a teen-ager Nirenberg developed rheumatic fever, prompting the family to move to subtropical ...
Singer, Maxine (1931-) is an American biochemist and geneticist who has been a leading voice in the debate over the issues and ethics surrounding the development of recombinant DNA techniques, which combine DNA fragments from different types of cells or transplant them ...
Varmus, Harold Eliot (1939-) is an American physician and cancer researcher who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with his colleague J. Michael Bishop. From 1968 to 1970, he was a clinical associate at the National Institutes of Health ...
J. Craig Venter, an American biochemist and businessman, is a pioneer in research on the human genome, the genetic instructions that control heredity in humans.. In 1984, he joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as chief of the section of receptor ...
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