Seven foundations have formed a coalition with the aim of increasing support for basic science among the nation's philanthropists and foundations, Robert Conn, president of The Kavli Foundation, announced on 2 May. The group hopes to double philanthropic support in this area of U.S. science within a decade.
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Every year, millions of women are affected by the pain and discomfort of urinary tract infections or UTIs. For some, the infections may return even after treatment, recurring two or more times within a six-month period.
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Despite an explosion of research on the use of brain scans and other tools of science to help better determine a person's guilt or innocence, experts at a AAAS-organized discussion said hopes that neuroscience might transform the legal system are unrealistic for now.
AAAS research, presented at a recent meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), has shown that students made significant advances in understanding key chemistry and biology ideas by learning them together.
Dr. Elazer R. Edelman, director of the Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering Center, is an electrical engineer who became a cardiologist and went on to do path-breaking work on the use of stents, small mesh tubes placed in narrowed or weakened arteries for the treatment of heart disease.
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