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Time and Nanotech

By Chris Phoenix

[Published 12th April 2004]

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Aquariums Aglow

By George McNamara

[Published 12th April 2004]

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Science and the Single Mom

By Vandana Parikh

[Published 12th April 2004]

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A Bibliophile is Born

By Elva Robinson

[Published 12th April 2004]

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Mother Love and the Brain

By Harvey Black

[Published 12th April 2004]

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Hazmats in the Lab

By Alexander Grimwade

[Published 12th April 2004]

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Digging through the Data

By Maria Anderson

[Published 12th April 2004]

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Defining DNA as the Hereditary Molecule

By Sam Jaffe

[Published 12th April 2004]

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Bone Loss Still a Problem for Astronauts

By Harvey Black

[Published 12th April 2004]

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Leroy Hood

By Christine Bahls

[Published 12th April 2004]

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Human Origins from Afar

By Ricki Lewis

[Published 12th April 2004]

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On The Fringes Of Life

By Jill Adams

[Published 12th April 2004]

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Exploring Inositide Diversity

By Mark Greener

[Published 12th April 2004]

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Dinner, Pets, and Plagues by the Bucketful

By Janet Ginsburg

[Published 12th April 2004]

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Playing Protein Hide and Seek

By Mignon Fogarty

[Published 12th April 2004]

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Organellar Proteomics

By Matthias Mann

[Published 12th April 2004]

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A Left-Brain/Right-Brain Conundrum Revisited

By Laura Spinney

[Published 12th April 2004]

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Panic's other problems

By Stacie Berg

[Published 12th April 2004]

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A Sleek Genome, Except For All the Junk

By David Secko

[Published 12th April 2004]

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Interdisciplinary Research

[Published 12th April 2004]

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Bioinformatics for the Linux-Curious

By Jeffrey Perkel

[Published 12th April 2004]

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Mining for Microbial Community Insights

By Aileen Constans

[Published 12th April 2004]

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The Move to Clinical Proteomics

By Josh Roberts

[Published 12th April 2004]

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MALDI-TOF/TOF Mass Spectrometer

By Jeffrey Perkel

[Published 12th April 2004]

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Not Yet a Biotech Empire

By Francesco Fiondella

[Published 12th April 2004]

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The (Garden) State of Life Sciences

By Francesco Fiondella

[Published 12th April 2004]

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NIH Tackling Tricky Ethics Reform

By Dana Wilkie

[Published 12th April 2004]

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Scientists Puzzle Over Ancient Ossuary

By Sam Jaffe

[Published 12th April 2004]

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Biotechs Take on Risks to Make Drugs

By Susan Warner

[Published 12th April 2004]

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New Country and Career; New Lessons

By Shweta Sharma

[Published 12th April 2004]

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NEW York-New Jersey Life Science Nirvana

By Ted Agres

[Published 12th April 2004]

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Educate Your MP

By Martina Habeck

[Published 12th April 2004]

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The Right Way and Wrong Way to Lead

By Richard Gallagher

[Published 12th April 2004]

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Hate Grant Writing? Stand Up and Be Counted

By Walter Brown

[Published 12th April 2004]

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Handling Human Samples Is Worth the Risk

By Gilbert Ellis, Allen Sanborn

[Published 12th April 2004]

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The Back and Forth on Open Access

By Frank Russo

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Criticizing the Critics

By Howard Dalton

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Alone

By Mark Smith, George Perry

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Feared Science Rules

By J Glenn Songer

[Published 26th April 2004]

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On Textbook Publishing

By Sharon Hughes

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Reading Eukaryotic Barcodes

By Myrna Watanabe

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Science and the Golden Years

By Maria Anderson

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Aging Gracefully, Retiring Reluctantly

By Alexander Grimwade

[Published 26th April 2004]

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The Physics of Footwear

By Caryn Evilia

[Published 26th April 2004]

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The Day the Earth Stood Still

By Sam Jaffe

[Published 26th April 2004]

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J. Craig Venter

By Christine Bahls

[Published 26th April 2004]

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May Calendar

[Published 26th April 2004]

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The Tribulations of Clinical Trials

By Susan Warner

[Published 26th April 2004]

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From P Values to Bayesian Statistics, It's All in the Numbers

By Steven Ross

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Scouring Sequences for the Fountain of Youth

By Ricki Lewis

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Enter the Matrix

By Ricki Lewis

[Published 26th April 2004]

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More Than Skin Deep

By Ricki Lewis

[Published 26th April 2004]

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o's Imprint

By Philip Hunter

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Melanopsin Lights the Way

By Josh Roberts

[Published 26th April 2004]

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SIR2

By Leonard Guarente

[Published 26th April 2004]

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HDAC Confidential

By Cathy Holding

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Particulate Matters

By Harvey Black

[Published 26th April 2004]

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The Immunity Job

By A Nicola Schweitzer

[Published 26th April 2004]

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To siRNA with Love

By Sam Jaffe

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Scientists Unveil Mouse Chromosome Substitution Panel

By Aileen Constans

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Shining the Light on Nanofabrication

By Ivan Oransky

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Rendering Images in 3-D

By Aileen Constans

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Improving the Lives of Laboratory Animals

By Jane Salodof MacNeil

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Electroporation and the Single Cell

By Aileen Constans

[Published 26th April 2004]

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A DNA Vending Machine

By Bennett Daviss

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Caliper Upgrades Microfluidics Platform

By Tariq Malik

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Full Speed Ahead

By Francesco Fiondella

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Imagining Science

By Gerald Edelman

[Published 26th April 2004]

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French Government Concedes to Researchers

By Catherine Brahic

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Managing Academic Lab Recruitment

By Bob Calandra

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Getting Over Academic Science

By Morris Saffold Jones

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Universities Segregate Stem Cell Research

By Peg Brickley

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Pharma Should Publish Its Trial Results

By Richard Gallagher

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Rituals and Deities in the Lab

By Caryn Evilia

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Are Pharmaceutical Company Mergers Rational?

By Michael Koenig, Elizabeth Mezick

[Published 26th April 2004]

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Readers respond

By The Editor

[Published 1st April 2004]

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Flowers empower ferns

By Stuart Blackman

[Published 1st April 2004]

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EU seeking scientists

By Stephen Pincock

[Published 1st April 2004]

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Astrobiologists gather at NASA

By Ivan Oransky

[Published 1st April 2004]

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Leptin regulates brain growth

By David Secko

[Published 2nd April 2004]

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Bacterial genomics in Spain

By Xavier Bosch

[Published 2nd April 2004]

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New science minister in France

By Catherine Brahic

[Published 2nd April 2004]

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Comparing relatives

By Stephen Pincock

[Published 5th April 2004]

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Minding the genome gap

By Stephen Pincock

[Published 5th April 2004]

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Panel limits use of embryos

By Alison McCook

[Published 5th April 2004]

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Genes constantly evolve

By Cathy Holding

[Published 6th April 2004]

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Why sex makes female ticks fat

By Henry Nicholls

[Published 6th April 2004]

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Smoking inhibits cell motility

By David Secko

[Published 6th April 2004]

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New approach to mood disorders

By Stephen Pincock

[Published 6th April 2004]

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New brain sciences center

By Jane Burgermeister

[Published 7th April 2004]

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Vatican buys drug lab

By Marta Paterlini

[Published 7th April 2004]

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US reverses journal embargo

By John Dudley Miller

[Published 7th April 2004]

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Canada's NRC outgrowing budget

By Doug Payne

[Published 7th April 2004]

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USDA creates Borlaug fellowships

By Robert Walgate

[Published 8th April 2004]

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Call for more UK space science

By Ned Stafford

[Published 8th April 2004]

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EU turns down biotech generic

By Edward Winnick

[Published 8th April 2004]

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California OKs GM pharm crops

By Charles Choi

[Published 8th April 2004]

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Wray's boss resigns from VA

By John Dudley Miller

[Published 8th April 2004]

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Chlamydial evolution probed

By Cathy Holding

[Published 13th April 2004]

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Biohistory guidelines urged

By Maria Anderson

[Published 13th April 2004]

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German GM wheat trials continue

By Ned Stafford

[Published 13th April 2004]

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NIH consulting limits urged

By Ted Agres

[Published 13th April 2004]

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Copies key for gene networks

By Cathy Holding

[Published 14th April 2004]

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Crop biodiversity treaty OK'd

By Charles Choi

[Published 14th April 2004]

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French science jobs reinstated

By Catherine Brahic

[Published 14th April 2004]

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Max Planck to open aging center

By Ned Stafford

[Published 15th April 2004]

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No go on GM pharm rice crops

By Edward Winnick

[Published 15th April 2004]

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Can sequence predict function?

By Cathy Holding

[Published 16th April 2004]

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Vitamin D expert loses post

By Alison McCook

[Published 16th April 2004]

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Eastern concerns for EU science

By Andrew Scott

[Published 16th April 2004]

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US postdocs happy, but...

By Trevor Stokes

[Published 16th April 2004]

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MDC still seeking new chief

By Ned Stafford

[Published 19th April 2004]

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Call for bioweapons panel

By Stephen Pincock

[Published 19th April 2004]

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US postdocs report progress

By Ted Agres

[Published 19th April 2004]

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Human genome database unveiled

By Tabitha Powledge

[Published 20th April 2004]

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Quick peer review for $125

By John Dudley Miller

[Published 20th April 2004]

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1st mouse by parthenogenesis?

By Cathy Holding

[Published 21st April 2004]

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Polio vaccine-AIDS theory dead

By David Secko

[Published 21st April 2004]

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PhD quality network adopted

By Rossella Lorenzi

[Published 21st April 2004]

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Columbia grad students strike

By Alison McCook

[Published 21st April 2004]

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Glial cells help shape brain

By Helen Dell

[Published 22nd April 2004]

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HRT gets another chance

By Tabitha Powledge

[Published 22nd April 2004]

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UK risks 'losing science data'

By Robert Walgate

[Published 22nd April 2004]

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Finding recombination hotspots

By Cathy Holding

[Published 23rd April 2004]

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Understanding T-cell memory

By David Secko

[Published 23rd April 2004]

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Dolly team to seek cloning OK

By Robert Walgate

[Published 23rd April 2004]

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Daschle rips Bush on science

By Eugene Russo

[Published 23rd April 2004]

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Animal activist victims unite

By Stephen Pincock

[Published 23rd April 2004]

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US security bad for science?

By Eugene Russo

[Published 26th April 2004]

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John Maynard Smith dies

By Catherine Brahic

[Published 26th April 2004]

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NIH misconduct rules reviewed

By Ted Agres

[Published 26th April 2004]

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SARS escaped Beijing lab twice

By Robert Walgate

[Published 26th April 2004]

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causes cleft palate

By Cathy Holding

[Published 27th April 2004]

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Swiss computing center opens

By Martina Habeck

[Published 27th April 2004]

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Open-access journals rank well

By Alison McCook

[Published 27th April 2004]

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Genome analysis without compare

By David Secko

[Published 28th April 2004]

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Estonia genome project lives on

By Jane Burgermeister

[Published 28th April 2004]

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No evolution for Italian teens

By Rossella Lorenzi

[Published 28th April 2004]

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Darwin back in Italy's schools

By Rossella Lorenzi

[Published 29th April 2004]

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New York BRANY power

By Edward Winnick

[Published 29th April 2004]

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Viral micro RNAs identified

By Cathy Holding

[Published 30th April 2004]

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Slow progress for EU biotech

By Andrew Scott

[Published 30th April 2004]

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USDA plans animal ID network

By Charles Choi

[Published 30th April 2004]

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Pasteur expands in Asia

By Catherine Brahic

[Published 30th April 2004]