Click here to read University of Kentucky's President, Lee Todd's op-ed in the Courier-Journal about the economy and university-based research.
Click here to read MIT President Susan Hockfield's op-ed in the Boston Globe regarding the urgent need for increased NIH funding.
Click here to read the joint op-ed in Fortune magazine by University of Southern California Provost, C. L. Max Nikias and CEO of the Gallup Organization, Jim Clifton. They write that the U.S. government must increase it support for basic research if America is to maintain its competitive edge.
Click here to read the new report A Broken Pipeline? Flat Funding of the NIH Puts a Generation of Science at Risk. This report was released March 11 by a group of universities concerned about the long-term impact current NIH funding trends will have on America.
Click here to read the recent New York Times editorial calling on Congress to increase funding for NIH.
Science and Technology in the 2008 Presidential Election
Click here to access the AAAS portal comparing each of the 2008 presidential campaigns on their positions and/or platforms on key science and technology areas.
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Emory-led Study Links Metals to Alzheimer's
A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Emory University has defined for the first time how metal ions bind to amyloid fibrils in the brain in a way that appears toxic to neurons. Amyloid fibrils are linked to the development of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Creutzfeldt-Jakob.
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