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Bench or Bedside? A Conversation with Ferid Murad

Camelia-Lucia Cimpianu, an early-career scientist who attended the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting this summer in Germany, is trying to decide between a career as a researcher or a practising doctor. In this film, she seeks advice from Nobel Laureate Ferid Murad who faced the same dilemma as a medical student in the 1960s. Murad chose the bench, and he subsequently discovered that nitric oxide acts as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system.

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First lady targets world record for jumping jacks

Michelle Obama will lead hundreds of children in an event on the South Lawn of the White House Tuesday in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the most people doing jumping jacks in a 24-hour period.

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EPA Easing Air Quality Rule for Power Plants

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to ease a new air pollution rule that would require power plants in 27 states to slash emissions, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The EPA plans to propose as early as this week allowing certain states and companies to emit more pollutants than it previously permitted, the report said.

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Drone On: Will the FAA Open U.S. Skies to Unmanned Aircraft?

Drone strikes have proved an effective, if controversial, weapon in the hunt for al Qaeda operatives in the Middle East and beyond . The use of such unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) domestically for civilian jobs such as U.S. border patrol, weather research, pipeline inspection or even real estate photography has lagged, however, because of a cumbersome Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) case-based approval process.

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Video: Alzheimer’s: New clues in search for cure

A new study, called the DIAN study, is following multiple generations of family members across the globe with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. CBS News contributor Priya David Clemens reports on a Seattle family that is providing never-before insights into the disease's first signs

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Poachers Wiping Out Rare Monkey in Tanzania

An endangered Old World monkey species found in only two sites in Tanzania is in danger of being poached and eaten into extinction, researchers from the Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG) and Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Center reported last week. The Sanje mangabey ( Cercocebus sanjei ) lives only in the Mwanihana Forest and the Udzungwa Scarp Forest Reserve on the eastern slopes of Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains.

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