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1. Breast Cancer Risk Linked To Red Meat, Study
Finds, from the Washington Post (Registration Required); Appearing in the
November 14, 2006 issue of Science in the News, a daily science digest from
Sigma Xi.
2. Important MCAT
information (Especially class of 2008, but important for all who will
take the MCAT)
3. Gene
Sequence Grant Aims to Fight Cancer, from the Boston Globe (Registration
Required): Appearing in the
November 21, 2006 issue of Science in the News, a daily science digest from
Sigma Xi.
4. The only
thing that is constant is change – Photos from the Gulf Coast Research Lab
trip, November 16-18, 2006
5. Received this
week.
6. A proposal for a
new logo for faculty t-shirts when we play our annual Youth & Vitality
vs. Old Age & Deceit Charity Volleyball game.
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1. Breast Cancer Risk Linked To Red Meat,
Study Finds, from the Washington
Post (Registration Required); Appearing in the November 14, 2006 issue of
Science in the News, a daily science digest from Sigma Xi.
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Younger women who regularly eat red meat appear to face an increased risk
for a common form of breast cancer, according to a large, well-known
Harvard study of women's health.
The study of more than 90,000 women found that the more red meat the women
consumed in their 20s, 30s and 40s, the greater their risk for developing
breast cancer fueled by hormones in the next 12 years. Those who consumed
the most red meat had nearly twice the risk of those who ate red meat
infrequently.
The study, published yesterday in the Archives of Internal Medicine, is the
first to examine the relationship between consumption of red meat and
breast cancer in premenopausal women, and the first to examine the question
by type of breast cancer.
To read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2006/11/13/AR2006111300824.html
Or: http://tinyurl.com/yjckgc
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2. Important MCAT information (Especially class of 2008, but
important for all who will take the MCAT)
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The central office of the American Association of Medical
Colleges sponsored a webcast for prehealth advisors. Here are some
notes provided by Barbara Huntington, PHP Director at SDSU:
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All premed students (allopathic and osteopathic) are urged to become familiar
with the AAMC website, particularly the MCAT section at http://www.aamc.org/students/mcat/
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This is important: If you are class of 2008 and you are applying for a
fee waiver, it is not too early to sign up for that now. (In the past,
students who signed up early were much more likely to get the FAP.) That way,
you will already have an AMCAS ID number which you will need in order to
apply for the MCAT. (You may also already have a number if you used the AMCAS
application for one of my classes or for committee--Once you have done so,
always use the same AMCAS ID number.)
Go into the website now and read (and perhaps print) the MCAT
essentials. You are required to have read these before you can sign up
to take the MCAT. In filling out the form for the MCAT, if you are
considered disadvantaged, be sure to click "yes" on that
question.
Be sure to give me access to your file by listing Christian Brothers
University where it
asks for your advisor and primary school.
Students may sign up for the January tests on November 15 at 12:01 am Eastern
time, so this means you can sign up on November 14 at 9:01 pm if I have
that figured out correctly. This is extremely important,
because there are not very many Prometric sites in the Memphis area.
There will be 19 test days with 22 administrations. (Some days will have 2
administrations). There will be 33% fewer questions, so the test day
will be closer to 5 hours rather than 6-8 hours. There will be an
optional 10 minute break between tests. You can take up to 3 tests per
year, but can only sign up for one at a time. There will be 5
registration windows. Nov. 15 starts the window for the January tests.
December 13 starts the window for the April and May tests. If you make
any changes (location or date), you will be charge $50 per change. (A
change can be a date or a location, or a date and location if they are done
at the same time.) Practice tests will be available for $35 each
at www.e-mcat.com (If
clubs want to buy larger quantities of tests at a discount,
that will be available later.)
http://www.aamc.org/students/mcat/
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3. Gene Sequence Grant Aims to Fight Cancer, from the Boston Globe
(Registration Required): Appearing in
the November 21, 2006 issue of Science in the News, a daily science digest
from Sigma Xi.
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ST. LOUIS - A $156 million grant for DNA sequencing at the
Washington
University
School of Medicine is
part of an effort to unlock the mystery of
the origins of cancer within the
body, university officials said Monday.
The four-year grant is one of only three awarded Monday by
the National
Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). The Baylor College of Medicine in
Houston and the Broad Institute at the Massachusetts
Institute of
Technology/Harvard University are
the other recipients.
Washington
University scientists
were part of the collaboration that in
2000 produced the first human genome sequence -- a
molecular map of our
species. The new grant is aimed
at taking that work a step further,
said Richard Wilson, director of
the university's Genome
Sequencing Center.
To read more:
http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2006/11/20/gene_sequence_grant_a
ims_to_fight_cancer/
Or: http://tinyurl.com/ygc524
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4.
The only thing that is constant is change –
Photos from the Gulf Coast Research Lab trip, November 16-18, 2006.
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The students in Dr. Stan Eisen’s Invertebrate Zoology (BIOL 335) and Brother
Edward Salgado’s Ecology (BIOL 412) visited the Gulf Coast Research Lab
November 16-18. As part of the trip,
the students boarded the Hermes, a 50-foot research vessel, to collect trawl
and plankton samples. They also
visited various locations to survey the changes that occurred in the Gulf Coast
as a result of Hurricane Katrina.
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a. First, some background: On August
18, 2006, Hurricane Katrina crossed over the Florida
peninsula, which you see to the right of the whirl, and entered the Gulf of Mexico.
There, it regained strength to become a Level 4 hurricane.
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b) Approximately 8 hours before
Hurricane Katrina made landfall, a wave surge covered the islands near Biloxi Bay
and flooded much of the Gulf
Coast Research Lab
itself. By the time Hurricane Katrina
reached landfall on August 29, 2005, it had attained Level 5 status. The Gulf Coast
Research Lab, shown here, was damaged extensively. Notice the loss of several buildings
between the “before” picture and the “after” picture below it.
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c) “Hurricanes are shorefront phenomena”,
i.e., there
used to be an entire house behind this staircase. (Many of the residents who owned shorefront
houses and have chosen to return now live in trailers on their
property.) Shown here: Top – Laura Anglin; Middle row - Alan
Newton, Jennie Nguyen, Truc Le, Chemetra Patrick; Bottom row – Chantel
Engelberg, Maria Shiue, Brian Kim.
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d) Truc Le at the helm of the
Hermes
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e) Friends at a restaurant. (Akram Knefati, Gloria Bird, Jennie Nguyen)
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f) Trawl net catch
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g) Fair-weather friends following
the Hermes, looking for lunch.
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h) Sundown at Ocean Spring, MS
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5.
Received this week.
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Bastyr University
(Kenmore, WA) School of Naturopathic Medicine
·
Viewbook
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CD
Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN)
College of Medicine
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Viewbook of their Summer Undergraduate
Research Fellowship Program
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Viewbook of the Mayo Graduate
School
Journal of Immunology (courtesy of C. Michael Jones, Medical Director,
Jones Cancer Clinic, Germantown, TN)
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Volume 177, No. 7 (October 1, 2006)
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Volume 177, No. 8 (October 15, 2006)
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Volume 177, No. 9 (November 1, 2006)
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6.
A proposal for a new logo for faculty t-shirts when
we play our annual Youth & Vitality vs. Old Age & Deceit Charity
Volleyball game.
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Whaddayathink? Please e-mail your
comments to Dr. Stan Eisen, seisen@cbu.edu
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