In today’s Houston Chronicle, Baker Institute science and technology fellow Kirstin R. W. Matthews writes that approximately 1,300 jobs have been saved or created for scientists in the Houston area, thanks to National Institutes of Health stimulus funding from the… Continue Reading
This week, President Obama released the budget for 2011, following two years of unprecedented funding — approximately $52.65 billion through 2010 — for the sciences courtesy of the stimulus package, also known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).… Continue Reading
In March 2009, President Obama signed an executive order which removed President Bush’s stem cell policy and called on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create new guidelines to expand federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research. Many… Continue Reading
UPDATE 11/18/2009: Today’s New York Times includes an interesting table that reviews the differences in the lifetime number of mammograms, false positives, number of cancer deaths, etc. between starting routine screening at age 50 versus 40. Of course, this table,… Continue Reading
Baker Institute fellow and former Johnson Space Center director George Abbey blogged yesterday about the annual Sally Ride Science Festival for young girls. Organized through the Rice Space Institute and its wonderful coordinator, Umbe Cantu, the event brings together young… Continue Reading
As the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate review the federal budget, one step should be skipped — adding the Dickey-Wicker amendment to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) appropriation bill. This amendment, which prohibits the creation… Continue Reading
Three-dimensional image of chromosomes. This week, three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their groundbreaking work impacting research on aging and cancer. Interestingly, their research was not intended to solve these broad issues — but instead addressed… Continue Reading