April 29, 2003Vol. LV, No. 9 
David Spiegel To Deliver NCCAM Lecture, May 6 Annual Pittman Lecture To Feature Pascale Cossart, May 7 Anxiety Disorders Screening for NIH'ers, Lu Wins Solowey Award, NIGMS Anniversaries Marked at Minority Student Meeting Are You a Computer Hacker's Target? NIDDK Establishes New Office of Obesity Research NIGMS Minority Program Directors Honored |
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A Perfect Place for Zebrafish By Rich McManus
 Big changes are coming soon to staid old Bldg. 6, one of the original campus laboratory buildings, completed in September 1939 (only 7 months after Bldg. 1) as a research facility for the National Cancer Institute. The 7-level-plus-attic red-brick structure, long eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, is due to be gutted down to bare concrete and completely renovated by 2005. Its two newer wings, 6A, completed in 1978, and 6B, grafted on in 1990 primarily to house lab animals, will remain largely untouched but will gain a third wing, 6C, now known as the NMR/Zebrafish addition, on its southeast corner. This new low-rise addition — so ground-hugging that its floors have already been designated B1, B2 and B3 — will house perhaps half a million of the species Rerio danio, or zebrafish, who will cavort in thousands of 1- and 2-liter tanks, managed by NICHD and NHGRI. The new wing will also house a massive NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) imaging magnet for studies by scientists from NIDDK, NCI, NHLBI and NIDCR. M O R E . . . Looking an Elephant in the Eye By Jennifer Wenger Ask anyone who's ever considered having surgery, starting a new drug therapy or changing a diet: To make smart health decisions, a person needs to be informed.M O R E . . . |
