SPECIAL FROM THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE
LEA(R)N: Lead, Encourage, Apply, (Retain), Network
BY ERIKA GINSBURG, NCI
Sallie Rosen Kaplan, who was never able to attend college, was committed to the education of women and helped support biomedical research at NIH. After she died in 1998, her estate established a fellowship, named in her honor, to recruit postdoctoral women to biomedical research at the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
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Enhancing Reproducibility of Neuroscience Studies
A Report from the Society for Neuroscience Meeting
BY EMILY PETRUS, NINDS
Scientific disagreements are essential for progress. Hypotheses are rigorously tested, and results are peer reviewed at every step of discovery. But there is a growing concern that many published preclinical studies, especially ones using animal models, cannot be replicated.
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