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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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Whatever Happened to Gene Therapy? - 4/6/06

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Dr. Inder Verma
Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Dr. Verma discusses how gene therapy offers hope to people living with chronic conditions caused by mutations in their genes. Gene therapy continues to be touted as a form of molecular medicine capable of having a major impact on human health. Possible outcomes discussed range from curing a myriad of genetic defects to providing relief from diseases like cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, heart failure, and infectious diseases.