Francis Collins

Francis Collins

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  Obama proposes $100M for brain mapping project

  President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed an effort to map the brain's activity in unprecedented detail, as a step toward finding better ways to ... 

• NIH chief: Cuts put vital medical research at risk

  Better cancer drugs that zero in on a tumor with fewer side effects. A universal flu vaccine that could fight every strain of influenza without ... 

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  Research chimps may be headed from lab to leisure

  Chimpanzees who have spent their lives in U.S. research labs being prodded, poked and tested may be headed for retirement in a leafy sanctuary where ...