Subject: Anne McLaren dies

From: "The Scientist" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:59:12 -0400

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Anne McLaren dies

Royal Society medal winner was a leader in mammalian development research

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A little lab tackles a big question

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By Edyta Zielinska

Do universities need quotas?

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By Jack Woodall

Does tenure need to change?

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Rensselaer provost's plan for FASEB

Robert Palazzo got his start studying centrosomes, and now prepares to take on the NIH

By Kelly Rae Chi

An economic gamble

What does society get for the billions it spends on science?

By Kerry Grens

From father to daughter

A child grows up in the lab, and now shows the world what she's learned

By Graciela Flores

Surgeonfish's revenge

Why traveling to idyllic spots to study a tiny fish isn't all it's cracked up to be

By Stuart Jacobson

A biologist realtor

Is it possible to save wildlife by selling it to the highest bidder?

By Andrea Gawrylewski

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