Bioinformatics an NIH priority

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Bioinformatics is now a National Institutes of Health (NIH) priority. The agency does not keep pace with private industry in updating computer resources. Lack of expertise affects the more established scientists and training is to be set up. Also, NIH's Office of Protection from Research Risks may be moved to the Department of Health and Human Services. The office monitors federally funded research nationwide to ensure that human subjects are not harmed.

Management, Usage, Software, Computers, Digital computers, Medical research, United States. National Institutes of Health, Computational biology

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Sound of silence

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Hearing loss, which is generally incurable, as the sensory cells of the cochlea do not regenerate, could be treated with gene therapy to bring back the lost cochlear hair cells. An experiment in deaf guinea pigs have revealed that viral introduction of the transcription factor Math1 into the damaged cochlea could bring back most of the lost hair cells and partially restore the hearing in deaf guinea pigs.

Care and treatment, Methods, Genetic aspects, Hearing loss, Ear, Ear surgery

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Distribution of mental health funding questioned

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The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill has charged that the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has not spent sufficient funds on research into bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and severe depression. The NIMH has responded that it spends approximately 80% of its entire budget on mental illness and behavioral science research.

Research, Finance, Political activity, Mental health, United States. National Institute of Mental Health, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill

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