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ARRA, or the stimulus bill, provided the National Institute of Health (NIH) with $10.4 billion to fund two-year research projects and Harvard has been granted funding for 65 research proposals, the majority of which deal with health care and medical research...
According to Kevin Casey, the associate vice president for Government, Community and Public Affairs at Harvard, the Univeristy sent approximately 600 proposals to federal agencies participating in ARRA, including the NIH, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Energy, among others...
...turns out it does. Adhering to the old saying "monkey see, monkey do," monkeys in the study appeared to favor those who mimicked them - even when the imitator was a member of another species (Homo sapiens). The authors of the paper, Annika Paukner of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Animal Center and her colleague Pier Ferrari as well as two Italian researchers, structured the study this way: two experimenters, each holding a small plastic ball, faced each monkey in its cage (10 monkeys in all participated). The monkey was given an identical ball. One of the experimenters imitated whatever...
...Washington A Delicate Step Forward for Stem-Cell Research In an effort to balance ethics and scientific advancement, the Obama Administration announced new guidelines for embryonic stem cells that could dramatically expand taxpayer-funded research. The rules, released on July 6 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), allow federal spending to study existing stem-cell lines, provided the embryos were freely donated and meet other ethical requirements. Stem cells derived from human embryos can grow into a wide range of organs and tissues; scientists believe they hold great promise in curing diseases, though critics believe embryo destruction is morally...
...speed with which stem-cell advances in recent years have been made is any indication, those revisions may be on the horizon very soon. "These NIH guidelines represent a reasonable compromise, based on where the science stands today," says Dr. Sean Morrison, director of the Center for Stem Cell Biology at the University of Michigan. "But this field is evolving at an incredibly rapid pace, and it may be necessary, down the road, to revisit some of the elements on this policy as the science evolves...