AAAS Names Tim Appenzeller to Succeed Colin Norman as Science News Editor

AAAS has named award-winning science journalist Tim Appenzeller—currently the chief magazine editor for Nature—to serve as news editor for the journal Science. Appenzeller is expected to make the transition toScience by summer 2013. .

By AAAS, USA.

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Science: Study Reveals New Survival Strategy for Bacteria Exposed to Antibiotics

Researchers have uncovered a new way that some bacteria survive when under siege by antibiotics. This survival mechanism is fundamentally different from other known bacterial strategies. Understanding it may be useful for designing drugs that target hard-to-treat bacterial strains such as drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), an increasingly urgent public health problem. The study is based on Mycobacterium smegmatis—a cousin of the microbe that causes TB—and its response to the TB drug isoniazid. .

By AAAS, USA.

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Tax Deal Leaves U.S. Science Agencies and Institutions in Funding Limbo

The U.S. scientific enterprise has been spared the devastating effects of an automatic budget sequestration—for now—thanks to policymakers' last-minute passage of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. .

By AAAS, USA.

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Science: Study Reveals New Survival Strategy for Bacteria Exposed to Antibiotics

Researchers have uncovered a new way that some bacteria survive when under siege by antibiotics. This survival mechanism is fundamentally different from other known bacterial strategies. Understanding it may be useful for designing drugs that target hard-to-treat bacterial strains such as drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), an increasingly urgent public health problem. The study is based on Mycobacterium smegmatis—a cousin of the microbe that causes TB—and its response to the TB drug isoniazid. .

By AAAS, USA.

Technology Policy Resource.