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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation National Institutes of Health
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- initialism government, US National Institutes of Health
- initialism
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from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services whose mission is to employ science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human health; is the principal biomedical research agency of the federal government
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Examples
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Who owns and operates the NIH Website? www. nih.gov is maintained by the Office of Communications and Public Liaison (OCPL), which is part of the Office of the Director, NIH.
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Arizona scientists say the batch of stimulus dollars through the NIH is a welcome change from years of stagnant federal funding for scientific research.
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In the midst of a molecular hybridization reaction, I was arrested by two FBI agents (the NIH is a federal reservation) for 100 summonses for parking violations.
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It's silly, because research funded by the NIH is funded on merit, and there's no one pot for all stem cell research that gets divided up differently.
Christine A. Scheller: On the Bridge: A Conversaton Between a Pro-Lifer and an Embryonic Stem Cell Researcher Christine A. Scheller 2010
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It's silly, because research funded by the NIH is funded on merit, and there's no one pot for all stem cell research that gets divided up differently.
Christine A. Scheller: On the Bridge: A Conversaton Between a Pro-Lifer and an Embryonic Stem Cell Researcher Christine A. Scheller 2010
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The comment period for the new US stem cell research guidelines from the NIH is open through May 26.
2009 May – Heuristic 2009
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The comment period for the new US stem cell research guidelines from the NIH is open through May 26.
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Pay attention to what the BHO Admin is doing now - shifting firearms & health research to the NIH from the CDC because laws were passed that stripped funding for firearms research from the CDC.
Gallup Poll: Will Obama Ban Try To Ban The Sale of Handguns? 2009
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The NIH is betting at least$14 million, the cost of the first three years of the expanded trial, that progesterone will pan out, he says.
NIH studying progesterone to treat traumatic brain injuries 2010
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It's silly, because research funded by the NIH is funded on merit, and there's no one pot for all stem cell research that gets divided up differently.
Christine A. Scheller: On the Bridge: A Conversaton Between a Pro-Lifer and an Embryonic Stem Cell Researcher Christine A. Scheller 2010
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