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Assay of nearly 5,000 mutations reveals roots of genetic splicing errors

Brown biologists have developed a new system, described in Nature Genetics, that identified and tracked hundreds of genetic variations that alter the way DNA is spliced when cells make proteins, often leading to disease.
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Health and Medicine

Public health events highlight urgent challenges, research

The Brown University School of Public Health will feature the urgency and importance of population health scholarship with the premiere of a documentary on the opioid crisis, a broad-ranging research exposition and a lecture on gun violence.
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News and Events

Brown joins second legal challenge to executive orders on immigration

Brown and 30 other universities argue in a March 31 amicus brief that the revised executive order on immigration threatens the institutions’ ability to fulfill their educational missions by attracting talented students and scholars from across the globe.
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Health and Medicine

Technology to screen embryos before implantation falls short

Because current methods for assessing the viability of IVF-created embryos are not sufficiently reliable, more research on embryo development is needed, two experts write in a new review article.
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Health and Medicine

With BrainGate-directed muscle stimulation, a man with paralysis moves his arm, hand anew

With the investigational BrainGate brain-computer interface and implanted muscle-stimulating electrodes, a man paralyzed from the shoulders down was able to use his arm and hand to eat, drink and perform other activities, according to new research in <em>The Lancet</em>.
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Health and Medicine

Prostate screening often occurs without discussion of benefits, risks

Less than a third of men in a large national survey reported talking with their doctor about both the pros and cons of the PSA blood test for prostate cancer, and the likelihood has decreased further since a national panel recommended against the test.
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Science and Technology

How a young-looking lunar volcano hides its true age

A young-looking volcanic caldera on the Moon has been interpreted by some as evidence of relatively recent lunar volcanic activity, but new research suggests it's not so young after all.
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Science and Technology

Medical school graduates celebrate Match Day 2017

Balloons dropped and champagne popped at the Warren Alpert Medical School when the clock struck noon and students found out where their medical careers will begin.
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Science and Technology

New grant extends IMSD across all sciences

The Initiative to Maximize Student Development, which has increased the diversity of doctoral students in the life sciences and supported student achievement, will expand to serve physical sciences, engineering and mathematics.
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Health and Medicine

The run up to Match Day is a marathon, and it’s tilting uphill

The process by which medical students become residents has a very precise moment of culmination — noon on the third Friday in March — but the preparation takes months of hard work and expense that has been increasing over time.
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Health and Medicine

Student research success supported by unique Brown curricula

To lead a new paper in Health Affairs that describes the exceptional success of Costa Rica’s approach to primary care, student Madeline Pesec combined her own initiative and talent with Brown’s unique academic programs and alumni network.
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Science and Technology

Robot uses social feedback to fetch objects intelligently

By enabling them to ask a question when they’re confused, an algorithm developed at Brown University helps robots get better at fetching objects, an important task for future robot assistants.
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Arts and Humanities

University celebrates Brown Arts Initiative’s launch

With aspirations to be the primary destination for students who want to integrate the arts into a complete liberal arts education, Brown formally launched an effort to create new opportunities and collaborations for students, scholars, artists and community members.
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Arts and Humanities

Spotlight on diversity, at center stage

In curating this year’s theater season, Brown students and faculty sought to bring issues of diversity and inclusion into the limelight.
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Science and Technology

New studies illustrate how gamers get good

Researchers led by a Brown University computer scientist used data from online video games to study what kinds of practice and habits help people acquire skill.
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