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Science 12 May 2000:
Vol. 288. no. 5468, pp. 938 - 939
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5468.938
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SPACE BIOLOGY:
Goldin Shakes Up NASA's Life Sciences Program

Andrew Lawler

On 1 May NASA Administrator Dan Goldin announced the transfer of the chief of life and microgravity sciences to a new position. Meanwhile, NASA chief scientist Kathie Olsen is reviewing the agency's biological program, which has come under repeated criticism from the National Research Council for its inbred culture, insufficient peer review, and tendency to overstate its findings. Life scientists hope the moves are the first steps toward creating a world-class research program at an agency that has traditionally given short shrift to the field.

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