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Integration and Invention | Frontiers of Nanotechnology and Biotechnology
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Nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter on a nanometer length scale to create new properties, has attracted tremendous attention among researchers in a variety of disciplines.
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Evolution, Health and Disease
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Evolutionary medicine can provide a long-term perspective on why diseases exist, and offers fundamental insights into the nature of disease that can help to treat it.
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Hammers for Glass Ceilings: Practical Career Advice for Minority & Women Investigators
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JustGarciaHill offers free access, courtesy the New York Academy of Sciences, to an eBriefing discussing strategies for minorities and women entering the quickly changing job market for new PhDs.
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Bright Idea Seeks Funding: Research Support for the Early Career Scientist
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JustGarciaHill offers free access, courtesy the New York Academy of Sciences, to an eBriefing discussing how career scientists can obtain needed research money from a wide range of public and private funders, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the American Cancer Society (ACS).
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Mastering your Visa: A Guide for Foreign Nationals Living and Working in the U.S.
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JustGarciaHill offers free access, courtesy the New York Academy of Sciences, to an eBriefing discussing the current status of immigration procedures for foreign scientists who would like to work in the United States.
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Tenure Track Tactics: Landing the Career Job
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JustGarciaHill offers free access, courtesy the New York Academy of Sciences, to an eBriefing discussing how new PhDs can be among the 20% who land the most coveted career jobs.
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NMI Focus: Linking People, Processes, and Tools
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JustGarciaHill offers free access, courtesy the New York Academy of Sciences, to an eBriefing covering the February 2005 focus group meeting of their Network of Minority Investigators (NMI).
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Chemical Biology: Intervention in Cells based on Chemical Principles
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JustGarciaHill offers free access, courtesy the New York Academy of Sciences, to an eBriefing with slides and audio of a Jan 2005 symposium on Chemical Biology. This 18th Annual International Symposium of the Center for Study of Gene Structure and Function at Hunter College, is supported with major funding from NCRR/NIH. Explore discussions about new Biopharmaceuticals and therapeutic RNAi.
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Quest for Excellence: Preparing Minority Students for Professions in Science, Technology, and Health
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JustGarciaHill offers free access, courtesy the New York Academy of Sciences, to an eBriefing discussing STEP and CSTEP--two science education programs serving 9,000 minority middle school, high school, and college students in New York State.
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Africa's Green Revolution
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JustGarciaHill offers free access, courtesy the New York Academy of Sciences, to an eBriefing discussing the idea that existing science, technology, and agricultural methods can become the engine for economic, health, agricultural, educational, and environmental gains in Africa.
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Minorities, Race, and Health Inequities in Medicine
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JustGarciaHill offers free access, courtesy the New York Academy of Sciences, to an eBriefing discussing the possibilties and perils of genomic medicine.
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Tyrone Hayes, Professor of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley, is an endocrinologist known for his work on atrazine, a common pesticide used on corn crops. Hayes has found that atrazine causes hermaphrodism in male frogs by causing them to synthesize estrogen, the female hormone.
