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Various species' genes evolve to minimize protein production errors
Scientists at Harvard University and the University of Texas at Austin have found that genetic evolution is strongly shaped by genes' efforts to prevent or tolerate errors in protein production.
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Scientists at Harvard University and the University of Texas at Austin have found that genetic evolution is strongly shaped by genes' efforts to prevent or tolerate errors in protein production.
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New study of gene evolution could lead to better understanding of neurodegenerative disease
Genetic evolution is strongly shaped by genes' efforts to prevent or tolerate errors in the production of proteins, scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University have found.
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Genetic evolution is strongly shaped by genes' efforts to prevent or tolerate errors in the production of proteins, scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University have found.
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Health Science Center diabetes researchers form partnership with N.C. firm
Diabetes researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio have agreed to collaborate with Metabolon Inc. in a new partnership that could accelerate the development of the company’s pre-diabetes diagnostic products.
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Diabetes researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio have agreed to collaborate with Metabolon Inc. in a new partnership that could accelerate the development of the company’s pre-diabetes diagnostic products.
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Once Suspect Protein Found To Promote DNA Repair, Prevent Cancer
An abundant chromosomal protein that binds to damaged DNA prevents cancer development by enhancing DNA repair, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The protein, HMGB1, was previously hypothesized to block DNA repair, senior author Karen Vasquez, Ph.D., associate professor in M. D.
Medical News Today – Jul 22, 2008 09:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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An abundant chromosomal protein that binds to damaged DNA prevents cancer development by enhancing DNA repair, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The protein, HMGB1, was previously hypothesized to block DNA repair, senior author Karen Vasquez, Ph.D., associate professor in M. D.
Medical News Today – Jul 22, 2008 09:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Health: Cancer
New chlorine-tolerant, desalination membrane hopes to boost access to clean water
A chemical engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin is part of a team that has developed a chlorine-tolerant membrane that should simplify the water desalination process, increasing access to fresh water and possibly reducing greenhouse gases.
EurekAlert! – Jul 22, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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A chemical engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin is part of a team that has developed a chlorine-tolerant membrane that should simplify the water desalination process, increasing access to fresh water and possibly reducing greenhouse gases.
EurekAlert! – Jul 22, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Building a better telecom system
University of Texas professor, Alexis Kwasinski, maintains that a microgrid-based power plant with its own local power sources and independent control would be more dependable, efficient, and cost effective than traditional telecom power systems. Microgrids would also be a quick and inexpensive way to include renewable energy sources for both existing and developing systems.
EurekAlert! – Jul 22, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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University of Texas professor, Alexis Kwasinski, maintains that a microgrid-based power plant with its own local power sources and independent control would be more dependable, efficient, and cost effective than traditional telecom power systems. Microgrids would also be a quick and inexpensive way to include renewable energy sources for both existing and developing systems.
EurekAlert! – Jul 22, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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UNT's is latest annual to go in apparent trend
By JOHN AUSTIN For better than a century, the yearbook has been as much a staple of campus culture as beer and bad dorm food. But as of this year, the University of North Texas’ Aerie is history. Purdue and Mississippi State universities are also closing the books on annuals, while at schools that still have yearbooks, advisers tend to talk somewhat soberly about the future. "It’s probably a convergence of a lot of factors," said Tom Rufer, director of the UNT student union, which plans to distribute the final-edition 2008 Aerie in August. "To some degree, social networking is replacing that. Students are using Facebook to chronicle the college experience."Rich Stoebe, communications director for publisher Jostens Inc., headquartered in Minneapolis, downplayed the influence of social networking sites."MySpace, YouTube, Twitter are a different category," Stoebe said. "High school students are just as involved in MySpace, and it hasn’t had an impact. Virtually every high school produces a yearbook."But if the virtual world isn’t hurting yearbooks, rising costs, the loss of a key adviser and student indifference can lead administrators to shelve yearbook publication, Rufer said. The fact that students at many schools are pulled in the direction of off-campus jobs, semesters abroad and off-campus living also means they don’t share a common focus on traditional college life they might once have. The fact that the University of Texas at Arlington doesn’t offer a yearbook didn’t bother Jason McDonald. "It’s not high school, where everybody’s so centralized," said McDonald, 19, who will transfer to the University of Texas at Austin this fall. As for UT, McDonald said he might get a copy of the Cactus as a senior. Advisers say first-year students and seniors are usually the biggest buyers. Campus newspapers capture some of a college’s culture. But yearbook fans say a paper can’t put an academic year into a single volume students can pull off the shelves, leaf through and laugh at for the rest of their lives. "It really does give you a sense of what it was like to be on campus in years past," UNT archivist Michelle Mears said.At Kansas State University, the annuals are the most requested items in the university archives, the KSU yearbook adviser said. "They’re losing the only written history of the year prepared by the students who lived it," Cactus adviser Kathy Lawrence said.Downward trendStoebe estimates that 1,100 of the nation’s approximately 2,500 four-year colleges produce all-school yearbooks. But at UT, the latest Cactus sold only 2,000 copies on a campus of about 50,000, Lawrence said. UT-Arlington has not had an annual for years. Texas State University’s book was discontinued in 2004 after its 100th edition. Texas Wesleyan University’s book ceased publication six years ago."There are very few yearbooks that have not experienced declines in the past few years," said Richard Lytle, director of Student Media at Southern Methodist University. "We have not come up with the exact reason."At this point we are still in the black, but if we continue to drop in sales, that becomes questionable," Lytle said, adding that most income for SMU’s $55 yearbook derives from sales to students, with ad revenue secondary.
Star-Telegram.com – Jul 21, 2008 04:25 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Texas: Dallas-Fort Worth
By JOHN AUSTIN For better than a century, the yearbook has been as much a staple of campus culture as beer and bad dorm food. But as of this year, the University of North Texas’ Aerie is history. Purdue and Mississippi State universities are also closing the books on annuals, while at schools that still have yearbooks, advisers tend to talk somewhat soberly about the future. "It’s probably a convergence of a lot of factors," said Tom Rufer, director of the UNT student union, which plans to distribute the final-edition 2008 Aerie in August. "To some degree, social networking is replacing that. Students are using Facebook to chronicle the college experience."Rich Stoebe, communications director for publisher Jostens Inc., headquartered in Minneapolis, downplayed the influence of social networking sites."MySpace, YouTube, Twitter are a different category," Stoebe said. "High school students are just as involved in MySpace, and it hasn’t had an impact. Virtually every high school produces a yearbook."But if the virtual world isn’t hurting yearbooks, rising costs, the loss of a key adviser and student indifference can lead administrators to shelve yearbook publication, Rufer said. The fact that students at many schools are pulled in the direction of off-campus jobs, semesters abroad and off-campus living also means they don’t share a common focus on traditional college life they might once have. The fact that the University of Texas at Arlington doesn’t offer a yearbook didn’t bother Jason McDonald. "It’s not high school, where everybody’s so centralized," said McDonald, 19, who will transfer to the University of Texas at Austin this fall. As for UT, McDonald said he might get a copy of the Cactus as a senior. Advisers say first-year students and seniors are usually the biggest buyers. Campus newspapers capture some of a college’s culture. But yearbook fans say a paper can’t put an academic year into a single volume students can pull off the shelves, leaf through and laugh at for the rest of their lives. "It really does give you a sense of what it was like to be on campus in years past," UNT archivist Michelle Mears said.At Kansas State University, the annuals are the most requested items in the university archives, the KSU yearbook adviser said. "They’re losing the only written history of the year prepared by the students who lived it," Cactus adviser Kathy Lawrence said.Downward trendStoebe estimates that 1,100 of the nation’s approximately 2,500 four-year colleges produce all-school yearbooks. But at UT, the latest Cactus sold only 2,000 copies on a campus of about 50,000, Lawrence said. UT-Arlington has not had an annual for years. Texas State University’s book was discontinued in 2004 after its 100th edition. Texas Wesleyan University’s book ceased publication six years ago."There are very few yearbooks that have not experienced declines in the past few years," said Richard Lytle, director of Student Media at Southern Methodist University. "We have not come up with the exact reason."At this point we are still in the black, but if we continue to drop in sales, that becomes questionable," Lytle said, adding that most income for SMU’s $55 yearbook derives from sales to students, with ad revenue secondary.
Star-Telegram.com – Jul 21, 2008 04:25 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Texas: Dallas-Fort Worth
Wasps Could Slow Invasive Plant
(Austin, TX) -- Researchers at the University of Texas are looking into ways that wasps could help control an invasive plant that blocks waterways.
News Radio 1420 – Jul 20, 2008 11:54 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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(Austin, TX) -- Researchers at the University of Texas are looking into ways that wasps could help control an invasive plant that blocks waterways.
News Radio 1420 – Jul 20, 2008 11:54 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Texas to retire jersey numbers of Young, Durant
The University of Texas will retire jersey numbers of nine athletes in three sports during ceremonies during the 2008-09 school year, Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds announced Friday.
ESPN – Jul 18, 2008 9:27 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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The University of Texas will retire jersey numbers of nine athletes in three sports during ceremonies during the 2008-09 school year, Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds announced Friday.
ESPN – Jul 18, 2008 9:27 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Literary Calendar
6:30 P.M. Max Sherman , former dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, discusses his recent book, Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder (Sherman was a longtime friend of Jordan from their days in the Texas state senate), at...
Washington Post – Jul 18, 2008 9:21 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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6:30 P.M. Max Sherman , former dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, discusses his recent book, Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder (Sherman was a longtime friend of Jordan from their days in the Texas state senate), at...
Washington Post – Jul 18, 2008 9:21 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Entertainment: Books