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Rowan Walrath
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Associate Editor, C and EN
Boston
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By Laurel Oldach Verified, Krystal Vasquez Verified, Rowan Walrath Verified| C and EN Verified She was excited when the acceptance letter came in January, from a research university in a major East Coast city. "In my brain, I was like, 'Yeah, this is it,' " the student tells C&EN. But in February, when she put together all the offers she had, she began to feel nervous. The offer letter from the research university that was her first choice had promised a contract to follow, but it hadn't yet arrived
By Rowan Walrath Verified| C and EN Verified At UMass Chan Medical School, gene therapy researchers Terence R. Flotte and Robert H. Brown are trying to figure out how to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the fatal neurodegenerative condition better known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease. They've made some progress: antisense oligonucleotides were able to slow down disease progression in at least one patient, and other studies from their labs have helped pin down some genetic causes of the disease, which is still poorly understood
By Rowan Walrath Verified| C and EN Verified The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) appears to be reversing course on its decision to abruptly cancel a spate of grants for long COVID research earlier this week. On Friday, the NIH Office of Extramural Research notified an office at New York University (NYU) that funding awarded through the NIH's long COVID research program-Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery, or RECOVER-for pathobiology studies was restored, according to emails shared with C&EN
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