Category: Science Policy
29 January 1998
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Gore Promises 'Historic' Boost to Cancer Research
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Casting a spotlight on science, Vice President Al Gore went coast to coast today to unveil plans to boost federal R&D funding in 1999. Here at the Executive Office...
28 January 1998
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Hopkins's Genetic Database to Close
Buffeted by the shifting winds of human genome research, government officials have decided to close an 8-year-old collection of human gene maps maintained by Johns Hopkins University. The database has...
27 January 1998
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Reform Shatters 'Iron Rice Bowl'
BEIJING--As many as half of the 49,000 researchers in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) could lose their jobs under a plan to modernize operations and cut costs. The changes...
22 January 1998
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No Ban for Animal Transplants
BETHESDA, MARYLAND--The transplantation of animal cells or organs into humans is getting a cautious go-ahead from U.S. health officials. At a meeting here today to help the government develop guidelines...
21 January 1998
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Labour Flatlines U.K. Science Spending
When the Labour Party won last May's general election, it pledged to stick to the tough spending plans of its Tory predecessor--including a flat budget for science spending. Last week,...
20 January 1998
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Gore Backs New Neutron Source
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Vice President Al Gore plans to visit Oak Ridge National Laboratory in his home state of Tennessee on Wednesday to announce the Administration's support for a $1.3 billion science...
14 January 1998
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White House to Ease NASA Money Crunch
While most R&D agencies are looking forward to a healthy boost in President Bill Clinton's 1999 budget request, NASA is an exception. Struggling with space station cost overruns and waning...
12 January 1998
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Global Vaccine Campaign Urged
Millions of deaths in developing countries could be avoided each year if new and underused vaccines were added to the world's existing immunization programs. That's the message of a report...
8 January 1998
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Colwell Nominated for NSF Job
Microbiologist Rita Colwell has been nominated as deputy director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Today's announcement by the White House puts Colwell in line to succeed Anne Petersen, who...
6 January 1998
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Green Light for NIH Boost
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The president's 1999 budget proposal won't be released until February, but the U.S. research community is already buzzing with delight. Administration officials say it will highlight basic research, including...
30 December 1997
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NIH Settles in Affirmative Action Suit
Opponents of affirmative action are claiming a legal victory against a federal effort to attract more minority students into biomedicine and health careers. On 11 December, lawyers for the Washington,...
22 December 1997
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Korea Adopts Plan to Strengthen R&D
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA--Despite an economy on the brink of bankruptcy, South Korea has given a strong vote of confidence to increased public funding for research. On 12 December, a panel...
19 December 1997
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Feds Dish Salmon Protection to State
Federal officials have withdrawn plans to use the Endangered Species Act to protect Maine's dwindling stocks of wild Atlantic salmon. This abdication leaves Maine officials in charge of protecting the...
16 December 1997
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German Fraud Prevention Urged
An international panel set up by Germany's basic-science granting agency, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), has recommended that future grants be denied to universities and research institutes that fail to adopt...
16 December 1997
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Clinton Ducks Future R&D Spending Issue
WASHINGTON, D.C.--President Bill Clinton praised science innovations today as the engine behind what he calls "the new economy" of growth, and he also proposed $94 million in new defense and...
8 December 1997
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U.S. Signs On to CERN Collider
WASHINGTON, D.C.--International cooperation in science received a boost today at a White House ceremony solidifying U.S. participation in a $6 billion multinational project. After 4 years of sometimes difficult negotiations,...
2 December 1997
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European Ministers Back Biopatents
Europe moved a step closer to adopting continent-wide rules for the patenting of biotech inventions last week. The European Union's Council of Ministers backed a draft directive supported by the...
25 November 1997
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Stony Brook Team Wins Brookhaven Contract
After firing the previous operator, Department of Energy managers today announced a new contractor to run Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York The State University of New York, Stony...
13 November 1997
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Academy Bill Passes Senate
The Senate approved a bill today that would exempt the National Academy of Sciences from government rules concerning advisory committees while also requiring the academy to provide more public documentation...
11 November 1997
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Compromise Academy Bill Passes House
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The House approved a bill yesterday that would exempt the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) from strict openness rules involving federal advisory panels, but would still require it to...
10 November 1997
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Advocates Sandbag White House Appointment
Several breast cancer advocacy groups appear to have won their battle to keep a controversial women's health advocate out of the White House. On Sunday, psychiatrist Susan Blumenthal--until recently director...
10 November 1997
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Last-Minute Compromise Gives NIH 7.1% Raise
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Congress agreed months ago that it wanted to give biomedical research a large raise in next year's budget. Now it has followed through: On 8 November, the Senate passed...
7 November 1997
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Academy Calls for Program to Divert Bioweaponeers
W ASHINGTON , D.C.--The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released a report here today calling on the Department of Defense (DOD) to launch a $38.5 million initiative to fund collaborations...
3 November 1997
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Saccharin: Still Potentially Dangerous
After nearly being exonerated as a suspected health hazard, saccharin--the artificial sweetener--is to remain on the government's list of possible human carcinogens. An advisory panel to the National Toxicology Program...
28 October 1997
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Smoldering Battle Over Saccharin Heats Up
After more than 2 decades under suspicion as a human carcinogen, saccharin--one of the most controversial food additives ever--may be exonerated by the federal government after a hearing later this...
23 October 1997
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Senators, Societies Back R&D Doubling
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Leaders of dozens of scientific societies and three senators crowded into a small room in the Capitol yesterday afternoon to propose doubling federal spending on civilian R&D over the...
22 October 1997
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DOE Pushes Shoestring Fusion
With prospects fading for construction of the proposed $10 billion International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) anytime soon, the push for cheaper alternatives is gaining strength in the fusion community. This...
21 October 1997
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Clinton Kills Asteroid Mission
WASHINGTON, D.C.--A small Pentagon mission to fire probes into several near-Earth asteroids has been shot down itself. President Bill Clinton last week vetoed the Clementine 2 program, part of the...
20 October 1997
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Chemical Engineer to Head Poland
Polish scientists gained a highly placed ally this week when the new Solidarity-led parliament tapped chemical engineer Jerzy Buzek, an active researcher at the Polish Academy of Sciences' Institute of...
8 October 1997
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NSF Backs New Quake Centers
The National Science Foundation (NSF) yesterday pledged $30 million to three institutions to fund and coordinate earthquake engineering research. Based in California, Illinois, and New York, the centers will study...
1 October 1997
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More Funds for NASA, NSF
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Research did well on Capitol Hill last night, as a joint House-Senate committee put the finishing touches to an appropriations bill that will provide funds for NASA and the...
30 September 1997
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Scientific Leaders Press for Climate Treaty
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Hoping to build momentum for a strong commitment to addressing the threat of global climate change at December's climate treaty meeting in Kyoto, Japan, more than 1500 prominent scientists--including...
29 September 1997
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Scandal Claims Science Minister
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA--A multifaceted review of the country's R&D policies may be delayed by the resignation last Friday of Science Minister Peter McGauran, who got caught up in a governmentwide scandal...
26 September 1997
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Head of Rice Research Lab Steps Down
Already struggling with massive staff layoffs, one of the world's major agricultural research centers also lost its director this week. On Wednesday, the head of the International Rice Research Institute...
18 September 1997
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UN to Grapple With HIV Ethics
The United Nations' AIDS program, UNAIDS, next week plans to hold a closed meeting in Geneva that will begin to sort out thorny new questions about the ethics of conducting...
12 September 1997
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CDC Head Nominated for Surgeon General
The White House today nominated David Satcher, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, to two of the nation's top health policy posts: Surgeon General...
12 September 1997
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Call for Unpublished Medical Data
The British Medical Journal announced today that it and more than 100 other journals will urge medical researchers to register their unpublished clinical trials. A list of unpublished trials, to...
10 September 1997
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New Occupant for Technology Hot Seat
President Clinton has named a career civil servant to lead the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a research agency that has been transformed in recent years into a...
5 September 1997
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U.K. Charity to Boost Irish Biomedical Research
Ireland's ailing biomedical research effort got a major shot in the arm yesterday as the London-based Wellcome Trust, the world's richest biomedical charity, announced plans to award grants in Ireland...
2 September 1997
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Japan Reins in Science Budget Growth
The recent rapid growth in Japan's public spending on research will apparently slow to a crawl in the next fiscal year, thanks to efforts to cut a ballooning national budget...
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