Word: nih
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...currently debating whether to fund a full-scale sequencing effort. Sen. Peter Domenici (D.N.M.) has introduced a bill that would establish a national gene mapping "initiative" and the Department of Energy has designated three national laboratories to conduct work on the project. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the federal agency which funds most biomedical research in the nation, also plans to send more resources to a genome mapping effort...
...institutions all over the world, and gives them technical help with primate experiments. Outside researchers' work is funded by grants for their specific projects, while the upkeep of the center itself is paid for by a separate multimillion-dollar "core funding" grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH...
...established review committee" rather than laymen. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of the Interior, and the state of Massachusetts all review the New England Primate Center at different times, under different codes. One such review, an announced visit by 19 scientists representing NIH, was conducted September...
...AIDS research, however. Hunt cites another project with implications for the care of delicate animals in captivity--an effort to determine why captive cotton-top tamarinds--an endangered species--often suffer from ulcerative colitis, a disease that can lead to cancer of the colon. The center has received an NIH grant to study this tendency in about 80 of the monkeys. He says it is not known whether this condition exists in the wild...
...There certainly are people who are ill and who can be disabled by this," says the NIH's Straus. "But the percentage is relatively small compared to the claims." Unfortunately for the victims, doctors have few treatments to offer. Stress reduction or sleeping pills may provide some relief. For now, says Gidget Faubion, who runs a 9,000-member support group for the afflicted that is based in Portland, Ore., most sufferers must learn to accept the severity of their condition. Says she: "If you don't change your attitude, you're going to make a suicide call...