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Middle-school math classes are key to closing racial academic achievement gap
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Apr 20, 2009 |
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More challenging middle-school math classes and increased access to advanced courses in predominantly black urban high schools may be the key to closing the racial academic achievement gap, according to a University of Illinois ...
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Getting more from whole-transcript microarrays
May 21, 2009 |
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The widely-used Affymetrix Whole-Transcript Gene 1.0 ST (sense target) microarray platform, normally used to assay gene expression, can also be utilized to interrogate exon-specific splicing. Research published today in the ...
New technique used to profile anthrax genome
Mar 20, 2009 |
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have used a new approach, known as RNA-Seq, to profile the gene expression of the bacterium that causes anthrax, Bacillus anthracis. Their study, published ...
New tool probes function of rice genes
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Oct 09, 2008 |
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A new tool for investigating the rice genome has been developed by researchers at UC Davis led by Pamela Ronald, professor of plant pathology. The inexpensive, publicly-available rice DNA microarray covers nearly all the ...
Largest-ever database for liver proteins may lead to treatments for hepatitis
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Scientists at a group of 11 research centers in China are reporting for the first time assembly of the largest-ever collection of data about the proteins produced by genes in a single human organ.
New blood tests promise simple, cost-effective diagnosis of gastrointestinal cancers
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Promising results from two new blood tests that can aid in the early identification of patients with gastrointestinal (GI) cancers will be presented at Europe's largest cancer congress, ECCO 15 - ESMO 34, in Berlin today ...
Protein misprediction uncovered by new technique
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Aug 27, 2008 |
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A new bioinformatics tool is capable of identifying and correcting abnormal, incomplete and mispredicted protein annotations in public databases. The MisPred tool, described today in the open access journal BMC Bioinformatics, curren ...
DC-SCRIPT found to have prognostic value in breast cancer
Dec 14, 2009 |
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DC-SCRIPT, or dendritic cell-specific transcript, is a key regulator of nuclear receptor activity that may have prognostic value in breast cancer, according to a new study published online December 14 in the Journal of th ...
High school physics enrollment hits record high
Jan 10, 2007 |
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"More U.S. high-school students are taking physics than ever before, and the number of physics bachelor's degree recipients in the nation has increased 31 percent since 2000, according to new data presented today by the American ...
New, noninvasive prostate cancer test beats PSA in detecting prostate cancer
Feb 01, 2008 |
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An experimental biomarker test developed by researchers at the University of Michigan more accurately detects prostate cancer than any other screening method currently in use, according to a study published in the February ...
Missing breast cancer genes may soon be discovered
Mar 22, 2006 |
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We are closer to finding the missing 80% of breast cancer genes than ever before thanks to the success of the COSMIC database (Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer) the 5th European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-5) was ...
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