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Using Natural Selection to Evolve Better Gene Therapy

October 26, 2009 // by John Herron

In my last post, I wrote about virologists using directed evolution to produce viruses that fight cancer. Another nice example of evolution being …

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Harnessing Evolution To Fight Cancer

October 20, 2009 // by John Herron

If we can control evolution well enough to turn wolves into poodles, why can't we use the same method to turn viruses into magic bullets for cancer? …

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Teaching Evolution With a Variety of Methods

October 12, 2009 // by John Herron

As Eli Meir has discussed, one of the take-home messages of our research on teaching natural selection is that students can benefit from repeated …

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Evolutionary Biologists Track a Creepy Dog Disease

October 5, 2009 // by John Herron

Among the useful things I learned while teaching high school many years ago were two sure-fire strategies guaranteed to get the attention of any …

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Group Theory

November 7, 2008 // by Eli Meir

There was an interesting news item in the October 9 edition of Nature about applying group theory to scientific authorship by John Whitfield. …

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Cool Projects at NSF’s CCLI Meeting

September 4, 2008 // by Eli Meir

Three weeks ago now (swish, there goes the time) I was at the CCLI conference sponsored by NSF for projects that have received funding from their …

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Neumann University

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University of Connecticut

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Lewis & Clark College

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Ohio State University

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Oregon State University, Cascades

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Duke University

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Community College of Vermont

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Rochester Community and Technical College

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Humboldt State University

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Marymount California University