The Journal of Young Investigators: An Undergraduate, Peer-Reviewed Science Journal
Volume 19, Issue 17. Nov 2009
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Nothing Nuts About It!
Children who have outgrown a peanut allergy may lower their risk of recurrence by frequently eating peanuts or peanut products, according to a study published in the November issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
In the study, Dr. Robert Wood, pediatric allergist at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, and colleagues at Arkansas Children's Hospital evaluated 68 children between the ages of 5 and 21 who outgrew a peanut allergy. Each child’s family completed a questionn ...More »
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The future of science depends on you...
In a commentary featured in June's Nature Chemical Biology, a professor from Brandeis University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) recognizes the somewhat bleak outlook that the future of science has for students in the United States due to college students’ decreasing interest in the subject.
Dr. Irving Epstein, who received $1 million from HHMI last year in order to address this very problem by reconstructing Brandeis University's introductory chemistry class, states th ...More »
