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Biology Students Struggling with Math

April 1, 2016
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Regardless of our current role in academe, education—for us and for our students—is central to our identity as scientists. With…

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ASCB-Gibco Emerging Leader Prize Essays

March 31, 2016

In fall 2015, ASCB awarded the first-ever ASCB-Gibco Emerging Leader Prizes to three cell biology researchers. ASCB introduced the prizes…

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Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus 2016 Briefing Series

March 31, 2016
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All presentations will be from noon until 1:00 PM in the Rayburn House Office Building, Room B-340. April 15 Zika…

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Watching a Congressional Hearing Turn into a Witch Hunt

March 31, 2016
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Last week at a congressional hearing entitled “Bioethics and Fetal Tissue” before the Select Investigatory Panel on Infant Lives, I…

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Misteli, Nunnari Run for ASCB President

March 31, 2016

Eight Candidates Seek Council Seats The two nominees for ASCB President-Elect are Tom Misteli of the U.S. National Cancer Institute,…

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Run for Your Life: Exercise Protects against Cancer

March 31, 2016

When you’re pounding along an icy pavement or sweating through a gym workout, you try to remind yourself of the…

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Cell News—How a rare class of antibodies neutralizes the HIV-1 virus

March 30, 2016

The Holy Grail in the search for an HIV-1 vaccine is the “broadly neutralizing antibody” or bNAb. The target for…

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Cell News—Seeing the leaves for the forest

March 29, 2016

Did you have a high school biology teacher who was keen on taxonomy and keying out tree species? If you…

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Improving Scientific Efficiency

March 25, 2016
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Science progresses by asking questions and by challenging established concepts and proposing new ones. The key to the success and…

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Cell News—Decoding noncoding RNA from virus to host

March 24, 2016

Next-generation sequencing is uncovering a vast array of noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) that may form a whole new class of RNAs…

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