Salk: under new management

Article Abstract:

The renowned Salk Institute chose Pollard, of Johns Hopkins Univ School of Medicine, to be its new president, after a two-year search. While not famous, Pollard is a distinguished cell biologist with administrative experience and the willingness to raise funds for the chronically underendowed institute.

Management, Associations, Biological research, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Pollard, Thomas

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IL-12 deaths: explanation and a puzzle

Article Abstract:

Researchers believe that kidney cancer patients given IL-12 got sick or died because they received the drug in multiple, high doses before being given a single, lower dose. Patients who had been given a single, lower dose a few weeks before the high, multiple doses did not suffer adverse reactions.

Complications and side effects, Clinical trials, Drug therapy, Accidents, Interleukins, Kidney cancer

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Getting all turned around over the origins of life on Earth

Article Abstract:

Scientists attending a meeting on 'The Origin and Homochirality in Life' tended to agree that the fact that DNA and RNA twist to the right and amino acids veer left is essential to all life. They disagreed about whether or not homochirality proceeded life.

Research, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Chirality, Life, Origin, Origin of life, Enantiomers

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