Word: nih
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...Elsie’s, “a sandwich place which made a terrific roast beef.”After graduation, Leder enrolled in Harvard Medical School where he got his M.D.Given the socio-political climate of the sixties, Leder chose to join the National Institute of Health (NIH) to avoid the draft. Once in Bethesda, Leder wound up in Marshall W. Nirenberg’s lab, where he and others established the critical link between messenger RNA and protein, allowing scientists for the first time to predict protein sequences encoded by mRNA.“I saw the possibilities...
...that their primate center is used for AIDS research et cetera but their main purpose is turning monkeys into cocaine and heroin addicts.”According to Mongiello, about 40 percent of any of the primate lab’s research funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) are cocaine and heroin studies. This includes research on drug withdrawal symptoms and reactions to drug combinations, Mongiello said. “We don’t believe that animals are ours to exploit and research, but we realize that not everyone agrees with us,” he said...
...Create a National Institute of Science and Engineering, like the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Funding for the nih has quadrupled since the 1980s, from $7 billion to $28 billion. "That's why we lead in pharmaceuticals and medical technology." Funding for science has been stagnant-about $5 billion-during that period. "I'd quadruple it and concentrate on nanotechnology, broadband and energy...
...most recent--and controversial--charge links fluoridation with bone cancer. In June the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a watchdog organization, petitioned the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to list fluoride in tap water as a carcinogen. The group cited "decades of peer-review studies" on fluoride's "ability to mutate DNA and its known deposition on the ends of growing bones, the site of osteosarcoma"--a rare, often fatal cancer that affects mainly boys...
...stakes were raised in July when Harvard University opened an investigation into whether a prominent dentistry professor had suppressed research by one of his doctoral students in a report to the NIH. The 2001 thesis showed a sevenfold increased risk of osteosarcoma in preadolescent boys from fluoridated water. The supervising professor, Chester Douglass, edits a newsletter funded by Colgate--which makes fluoridated toothpaste--creating "the appearance of a conflict of interest," according to the EWG, which filed a charge of "scientific misconduct" with the federal agency. Douglass was unavailable for comment, but a Harvard spokesman said the university takes...