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Interdisciplinary program attempts to ‘STIR’ up how research is conducted – The State Press

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2018-03-14 NEWS

The State Press

Interdisciplinary program attempts to ‘STIR’ up how research is conducted
The State Press
Embedded humanists usually include political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists and philosophers, but Fisher said there is a growing number of biologists, engineers and other members of the scientific community that are being trained in the STIR

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2018-03-13 NEWS

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Fighting Parkinson’s With Deep Sea Shrimp and CRISPR
KSAT San Antonio
A gene editing system called CRISPR allows them to “light up” a protein in the brain associated with Parkinson’s. Levi Adams, a Doctoral Student at the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, said, “In this study we are working with a protein that was