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...Gene Map Web site, which is hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology information at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., gives a brief description of The Human Genome Project and an explanation of the gene map. With the click of a mouse, each chromoseme is pictured with the sequenced genes and information about what traits those genes code...
...only in molecular biology but in all scientific accomplishment. In the mid-1950s, the U.S. government rapidly expanded the National Institutes of Health to underwrite and supplement the research of American biomedical scientists, many of whom have made their most important contributions while working in the nih laboratories in Bethesda, Maryland. One result of this strategy: since 1960, more than 50% of the winners of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine have been Americans...
...with a whole new pharmacopoeia of compounds to deal with mental disorders. "Today the psychiatrists who treat patients are working hand in hand with the 'wet-brain guys'--the pharmacologists, chemists and molecular biologists," says Dr. Steven Hyman, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, Maryland. While the effects of earlier psychiatric drugs were discovered largely by trial and error, the latest compounds are aimed at exact targets in the brain. "When you wanted to develop a new drug, you used to copy an old one that worked, add a little twist to the molecule...
...sufficient outlet for ever growing streams of new and recycled programming. Thus Disney buys Capital Cities/ABC; Viacom buys Paramount and launches UPN; and so on through the merger-mad '90s. "The best way to beat back competition," says Gary Arlen, founder of the research firm Arlen Communications, based in Bethesda, Maryland, "is to have your own content and make sure your vertical integration gets the FTC's approval." For Levin, it's so far, so good...
Nair, who is originally from Bethesda, Maryland, said that Harvard wasn't all that different from home...