Subject: Making outreach work

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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:19:19 -0000

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Making outreach work

How a take-your-child-to-work day helped launch a $200,000 education initiative

By Steven Farber

news

Teeth, whiskers bioengineered

In a study some experts say largely confirms previous work, a Japanese team shows new teeth can develop in the adult mouse mouth

By Jeffrey M. Perkel

article

Hot paper in viral structure

Elusive envelope glycoproteins

By Andrea Gawrylewski

The war against war metaphors

The age-old practice may harm both science and scientists

By Melinda Wenner

Studying fungi, but writing fiction

A recent PhD pens a wildly-popular online novel based on Phantom of the Opera

By Stephen Pincock

U of Washington chided for lab conditions

The institution closes its health research facility and plans a $20 million renovation to maintain accreditation

By Alison McCook

Neurogenesis happens in humans, too

There's more evidence that neurogenesis occurs in the human olfactory bulb, but what do these new neurons actually do?

By Tabitha Powledge

What kind of mass spec user are you?

Whether studying proteins, nucleic acids, or small molecules, there's an ideal configuration for everyone

By Jeffrey M. Perkel

Shroom science: safe and effective?

Fifty years after its introduction to science, psilocybin returns to mainstream clinical research

By Glenn McGee

Biologists cleared of misconduct

A University of Missouri probe of a Science paper exonerates the lead author and two co-authors, but a fourth author is on the lam, and still under scrutiny

By Kerry Grens

Searching for lipid antigens

NKT-cell triggers lead to therapeutic applications in cancer and asthma

By Cathy Tran

Hot paper in aggregation

The fibril zipper

By By Andrea Gawrylewski

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