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Blog / ToxCast and ToxPI: Emerging Tools for Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century

August 28, 2015February 16, 2016 / Mimi /

Hindsight is always 20/20, especially in the field of science. Given what we know now, it seems crazy that people used to think the world was flat. The realm of…

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Blog / The Trouble with Reproducibility in Science

August 11, 2015March 1, 2016 / Nicole M. Baker /

As scientists, many of us have read a paper, been inspired by the glamorous data, carefully followed the methods section in order to replicate the results in our own hands,…

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Blog / Warm as a fish in the sea

May 21, 2015January 25, 2016 / Bailey Peck /

No one can accuse the opah, Lampris guttatus, of being a cold fish. Nor could one call it a cold-hearted fish. Even if it were the most emotionally distant and…

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Blog / NCI Ras Initiative: Let’s get together and drug RAS!

May 15, 2015March 1, 2016 / Nicole M. Baker /

Non-scientist friends and relatives often ask me whether I am “curing” cancer, and question why the cure for cancer doesn’t already exist following decades of funding for research. Worse, some…

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Cancer RAS Science News UNC-CH Research

Blog / Move over, Mendel

May 2, 2015February 2, 2016 / Chris Givens /

Recently featured in Science, Valentino Gantz and Ethan Bier have developed a novel genome editing method that subverts traditional heritability. Termed the mutagenic chain reaction, this process  can insert new…

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