By Meredith Wadman of Nature magazine In December 2010, the US Congress passed the National Alzheimer's Project Act. [More]
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By Meredith Wadman of Nature magazine In a watershed moment for chimpanzee research, the U.S. [More]
Read More »‘Most’ Biomedical Chimp Research Declared ‘Unnecessary’ by Federal Agency
By Meredith Wadman of Nature magazine In a watershed moment for chimpanzee research, the U.S. [More]
Read More »Infant Chimps Bred at High-Profile Research Center Despite Ban
By Meredith Wadman of Nature magazine The largest and most high-profile chimpanzee research centre in the United States has acknowledged to Nature that 137 infant chimpanzees have been born to federally owned animals under its care since 2000, despite a government moratorium on such births. [More]
Read More »Sickle-Cell Anemia Mystery Is Solved
By Meredith Wadman of Nature magazine It has been a medical mystery for 67 years, ever since the British geneticist Anthony Allison established that carriers of one mutated copy of the gene that causes sickle-cell anaemia are protected from malaria. [More]
Read More »Autism’s Fight for Facts: A Voice for Science
By Meredith Wadman of Nature magazine The e-mail that ended one career for Alison Singer, but started another, arrived as she was cooking dinner for her daughters one evening in January 2009. [More]
Read More »Outbreak of ‘Nodding Syndrome’ in Children Stumps Experts
By Meredith Wadman of Nature magazine The boy was perhaps seven or eight, although he could have been older: among other things, the disease that afflicts him stunts growth.
Read More »Paxil Study under Fire for Bias, Exaggerated Anti-Depression Effects
By Meredith Wadman of Nature magazine The contentious issue of drug-industry influence over medical-research writing erupted on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia this week. [More]
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