“It’s been a pretty intense 6 months since we last met,” said Collins at the outset of a meeting that traditionally displays the breadth and depth of agency concerns.
Normally, when more than 1,300 employees walk off the job mid-day, a workplace has a problem. That is, unless it’s NIH’s annual Take a Hike Day, when the boss actually encourages the at-work workout.
Heart disease still tops the list of the leading causes of death for men and women in the United States, yet women tend to be affected later in life and often have different symptoms than men.
By learning about the composition of the bacteria and other single-celled organisms in their digestive systems, researchers in the Clinical Center hope to develop treatments to help these patients sleep.
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Recent NCI cryo-electron microscopy study reveals the structure of the light-sensing G protein-coupled receptor rhodopsin, captured in a signal transduction step.
