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According to the NIH, the experimental vaccine is designed to “teach the body to make protective immune responses against diverse influenza subtypes by focusing the immune system on a portion of the virus that varies relatively little from strain to strain.”
A recent report by CBRE Research analyzing U.S. life science clusters, found that Houston, Texas is the third-fastest growing life science market from 2014 to 2017. One doesn’t typically think of Texas, let alone Houston, as being a center for the life sciences. Oil, energy and tech, yes, but not life sciences.
Falsified Data Forces Duke to Pay $112 Million Settlement, Other Universities Under Scrutiny as Well
Duke University has agreed to pay the U.S. government more than $112 million to settle allegations that a university-associated researcher falsified claims in order to obtain funding from the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies.
The White House budget proposal released earlier this week that slashed spending on the National Institutes of Health and Medicare programs has put members of the administration, including Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on the defensive.
As the American College of Cardiology (ACC) annual meeting opens in New Orleans this weekend, one of the big stories will undoubtedly be on the role of wrist sensors, such as the Apple Watch, in identifying heart rhythm problems. There will be other big stories, of course. Here’s a preview of just a couple.
In the wake of the scandal caused by a Chinese researcher’s use of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to alter the DNA of embryos for seven couples, leading scientists called for a moratorium on heritable genome editing.
The president’s proposed spending plan cuts $4.5 to $5.5 billion from the current budget of the National Institutes of Health, about an 11 percent decrease from 2019.
Directly activating a gene important to exciting our excitatory neurons and associated with major depression may help turn around classic symptoms like social isolation and loss of interest, at least for males, scientists report.
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