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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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“Many scientists are dependent on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for funding so what the NIH funds or doesn’t fund is a big deal,” says Aaron Levine, Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy. Levine organized a survey of 370 stem cell researchers which found that recent legal challenges to the current administration’s hESC research policies has deterred some scientists from beginning research on the cells and forced others to change the type of cells they’re using for current research. Source: BioTechniques.com, March 3, 2011
