Fads and feds
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The NIH's new Office of Alternative Medicine plans to research alternative medical treatments for life-threatening disease where no other cure exists.Some feel that offering research grants in these areas, which have little scientific evidence, is unfair competition for standard medicine.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1993
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Defender of the plant kingdom
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Raven believes that two-thirds of the world's 300,000 plant species would no longer be present in the 21st century due to the destruction of their habitats. However, he believes that raising endangered plant species in botanical gardens could avert the ecological catastrophe.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1999
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Waking up
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Researchers are making progress in their understanding of sleep in mammels and the mechanisms that control it. Research into the role of cytokines, heat-sensitive neurons, and the ventrolateral preoptic site in the hypothalamus is discussed.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1996
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