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Science CafÃ©: I'm an astronomer - ask me anything!

11-06-2007 · University of Bath

A leading astrophysicist will answer questions on everything from black holes to dark matter at the next Bath Science CafÃ©, which takes place in The Raven pub in Queen Street next week.

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Astronomer finds that Mercury has molten core
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02-06-2008 · Brookhaven National Laboratory
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09-24-2007 · EurekAlert!
Is it good medical practice for physicians to "eyeball" a patient's race when assessing their medical status or even to ask them to identify their race? Three articles in this week's PLoS Medicine discuss the pitfalls of such racial profiling in both clinical practice and medical research.
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A research team led by scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard developed a new kind of genetic "roadmap" that can connect human diseases with potential drugs to treat them, as well as predict how new drugs work in human cells. Called the "Connectivity Map," the tool and its uses are described in the September 29 issue of Science and in separate publications in the September 28 immediate early edition of Cancer Cell.
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