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Thousands of scientists took to the streets in white lab coats last week, and some 60,000 researchers signed a petition charging the government with "financially asphyxiating public research institutions." Says Marc Peschanski, who heads research into neurological disorders at the National Institute of Health and Medical Research: "Massive resignation is the only way to give an electric shock to the government and the people of France." In an attempt to calm the protesters, Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin last week promised [EURO]3 billion in additional science funding...
...things that are happening in the science world are going so fast...and they are very, very expensive,” Rapier says. “There’s definitely a tremendous amount of needs in terms of the research and lab spaces and physical spaces and faculty...
There was no way to be sure what was in the mysterious vial that arrived in Dr. Don Catlin's Los Angeles lab last June. All he knew was that he had been told to find out what it was--and if it was what he suspected, it could mean big trouble for a lot of people...
What makes the new drug so cunning is that it grows unstable in the body, breaking apart before it reaches the urine and becoming invisible to screening tests. To track it, the UCLA lab invented a new test that is sensitive to the elements of the deconstructed steroid. So far, five track and field stars and four players from football's Oakland Raiders have tested positive for the drug...
Catlin, though pleased he helped move the case forward, is under no illusions that the jig is up for the dopers. If one lab can invent a nearly undetectable steroid, others are certainly doing the same. "People are developing designer drugs of all sorts," he says. "That's the bitter part. The sweetness is that [this time] it was discovered." For the four men soon to go on trial, things are about to get anything but sweet. --Reported by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen and Mitch Frank/New York, Laura A. Locke and Daniel Terdiman/San Francisco and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles