Three blacks on research council

Council on Undergraduate Research

Reports on Population Council Research

I N S I D E Family Planning Road Map Points Way to Equitable Access .................... 2 Improving Adherence in Microbicide Clinical Trials: Lessons Learned and Recommendations .................................................................. 4 Increasing Girls’ Protective Assets in Rural Upper Egypt .......................... 6 Menstruation Accounts for Only Small Proportion of Girls’ Absen...

The European Research Council on the Brink

Basic research in Europe is about to receive a shot in the arm with the creation of a European Research Council (ERC). This new agency will sustain fundamental investigation into all aspects of scientific knowledge and should drive up standards of scientific research across the continent.

Medical Research Council

What is it famous for? While being the main UK government's agency for funding biomedical research, it is probably best known for having nurtured British molecular biology in Cambridge in the golden decade of the 1950s — whence came the double helix model of DNA (James Watson and Francis Crick), the first amino-acid sequence of a protein (insulin, Fred Sanger), and the first three-dimensional p...

Medical Research Council

' Modern diagnosis and treatment make an increasing demand for methods by which the functional efficiency of organs or systems of the body may be objectively and quantitatively determined. It is important alike for the physician and for the surgeon to be able to assess the degree of impairment with which he has to deal. It may also be necessary to have means of measuring a disability for such p...