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FY12 Spending Debate Comes to a Close

Congress completed, and the President signed into law, the FY12 appropriations bill. The $915 billion spending bill wraps up the remaining nine appropriations measures. The bill provides funding for programs at the Department of Health and Human Services, including the National
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Rep. Rush Holt’s (D-NJ) Editorial in Most Recent Science

Science 16 September 2011:
Vol. 333 no. 6049 p. 1549
DOI: 10.1126/science.1211494
EDITORIAL:

Dueling Visions for Science

Rush Holt
Rush Holt is the U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 12th Congressional District and has a doctoral degree in physics.

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Innovation Through Education - 7/15/09

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Dr. Wendell Lim
University of California, San Francisco

Dr. Wendell Lim of the University of California, San Francisco (USCF) Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, shares his experience with the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition, a “Biotechnology Olympics” that brings together teams of students whose challenge is to design and build a novel genetically engineered system that carries out a useful function. The projects that have emerged from iGEM rival those of professional research laboratories and biotechnology companies in sophistication, and frequently exceed them in innovative thinking. Dr. Lim discusses how this innovative contest foreshadows new ways in which biology could be taught, practiced, and applied in the future.