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...JOHN'S-WON'T The herbal remedy St.-John's-wort appears to be no more effective than a placebo for the treatment of moderately severe depression, according to an NIH-sponsored clinical trial. But some psychiatrists and advocates of the supplement say the herb may still work for milder forms of the disease...
...left without a lab to complete his postdoctoral work when the principal investigator of the lab he was planning to join at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) took a position in Boston...
...start over interviewing with other NIH researchers and, although he knew little about genetics, he impressed future Nobel Prize winning geneticist Marshall Nirenberg so much that Bernfield became a postdoctoral fellow in Niremberg?...
Science Fictions does have juicy tidbits of the race to link HLTV (HIV’s former name) to AIDS. Crewsdon tells of incubators being shut off, fights between the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta and the National Institute for Health (NIH) in Bethesda, snubs at scientific conferences and botched research papers. Isolates of virus went missing and scientists snuck into each others’ labs to glance at rival research efforts...
...refused to share supplies, from virus isolates to cell lines needed to grow the white blood cells necessary for research. Crewsdon holds Gallo accountable for the delay in AIDS research as Gallo wanted to be the first to isolate the virus that causes AIDS—even when NIH dictum commanded Gallo to share supplies and information with rival labs in the name of the search for scientific truth...