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  • RTP Weekahead 2/8

    Posted by Sabine Vollmer on February 7, 2010

    Events taking place the week of Feb. 8 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public: Monday 8 ...

    Sabine Vollmer
  • Specter sights and sounds

    Posted by Sabine Vollmer on February 5, 2010

    Michael Specter, The New Yorker’s science writer, has a book out, “Denialism: How irrational thinking hinders scientific progress, harms ...

    Sabine Vollmer
  • RTP Wrapup 2/5

    Posted by Sabine Vollmer on February 5, 2010

    GlaxoSmithKline wants to scale back research and development and the cuts could affect jobs at the British drugmaker’s U.S. ...

    Sabine Vollmer
  • Mitochondrion whisperer visits NIEHS

    Posted by Sabine Vollmer on February 3, 2010

    In search of new medicines, researchers have gone inside the cell to study mitochondria, tiny power plants that are ...

    Sabine Vollmer

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