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David versus goliath

Article Abstract:

The issue whether the systems-biology revolution, which focuses on the interaction between cogs in the machine, instead of on the cogs themselves, has undermined the foundations of discovery-based science is addressed. For this purpose a debate was conducted in U.S. where recent doubling of federal funds for biological research was accompanied by a decline in successful grant applications, suggesting that there is a shift towards larger project.

Author: Check, Erika
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Ltd.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
Government expenditures, Biological research, Biology, Experimental, Government finance, Systems biology

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Retracted papers damage work on DNA repair

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A university panel found Tony Leadon, formerly a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, guilt of fabricating and falsifying findings in his research on DNA repair. The retraction papers authors reported that they had traced the syndrome's genetic cause to defective repair of oxidative damage, the sort of DNA injury caused by sunlight.

Author: Check, Erika
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Ltd.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
Legal issues & crime, Executive changes & profiles, Legal/Government Regulation, Officials and employees, Company legal issue, Cases, DNA repair, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Cockayne syndrome, Research fraud, Leadon, Tony

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Back to eplan AE.

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Some AIDS researchers believe that AIDS vaccine research is very important for stimulating cellular immunity. But many scientists think that AIDS vaccine research is more important for antibody production stimulation, and that certain super-antibodies may become powerful tool in the fight against HIV.

Author: Check, Erika
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Ltd.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2003
Health aspects, Analysis, Prevention, Physiological aspects, HIV (Viruses), HIV, Genetic aspects, AIDS vaccines, AIDS research, Biomedical engineering, Cellular immunity, Viral antibodies, Antibodies

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