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  • Fruit Fly Species Use Social Learning to Protect Offspring

    August 2, 2018
    FRUITFLY

    Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) have a number of attributes that have made them one of the most extensively studied and well understood of all model organisms used in biomedical research. These include sharing many of the genes that cause diseases in humans, having a relatively small genome (fully sequenced in 2000), a short life cycle, and a large number of offspring.

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  • Geisel Announces New Master’s Degree in Health Data Science

    September 21, 2017
    new Masters Program in Geisel

    Dartmouth’s Graduate Program in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences (QBS) is offering a new master’s degree with a concentration in health data science beginning in fall 2018. This new degree is part of Dartmouth’s innovative interdisciplinary graduate program, which trains doctoral students in bioinformatics, biostatistics, and epidemiology.

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  • May Brain Buzz: Arsenic in Rice

    May 30, 2017
    Arsenic in Rice

    Arsenic is a metalloid, with both metal and non-metal properties, and notorious as the almost perfect murder weapon featured in works of fiction including Agatha Christie’s Murder is Easy, and Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. It’s a natural component of bedrock, but certain pesticides used in the past have added arsenic to some areas.

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