Genome center grants chosen
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The National Center for Human Genome Research at the National Institutes of Health has awarded four five-year research grants of approximately two to three million dollars per year to the following institutions: the University of Michigan, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California at San Francisco, and Washington University. Investigators at the University of California at San Francisco and Washington University will be heavily involved in the mapping of the human genome. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be mapping the genome of the mouse, which is used as an animal model for many human diseases. At the University of Michigan, investigators will be improving technologies for locating genes involved in disease. The National Institutes of Health also awarded a program project grant, which will involve less money, to investigators at the Salk Institute and at Stanford University. The distribution of funds to a few large research groups, instead of many smaller groups, has been controversial, but it is felt that this is the only way that the work will get done. If plans go as expected, approximately half of the available money will eventually be divided among 10 or 20 research centers. (Consumer Summary produced by Reliance Medical Information, Inc.)
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1990
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Wetlands trading is a loser's game, say ecologists
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The wetlands mitigation projects that began in the 1980s to replace wetlands lost to development with reconstructed wetlands have not been successful. There are too many gaps in the understanding of wetlands ecology to permit the constructions of a functioning ecosystem.
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Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1993
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