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The Economics of Self Control

Jody Sindelar has combined field studies and analysis of existing databases to study the relationship between self-control, tobacco use, and the implications of proposed tobacco taxation policies on individual behaviors.

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23andme: A Genetic Social Network

Google-affiliated biotech company 23andme has been in the business of personal genomics since 2006, but it just recently introduced a new social networking feature along with a price reduction that it claims democratizes personal genomics.

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The Face of the Future

Face transplants have recently been highlighted in modern medical dramas, from Grey’s Anatomy to Boston MD, in response to the media frenzy surrounding several recent successful transplants, the first of which was conducted in 2010.

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Sitting Down with Noam Chomsky

Institute Professor Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a towering figure in the field of linguistics, whose 1957 monograph, Syntactic Structures, has been ranked among the most influential publications in 20th century cognitive science.

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Staying in Touch

DePauw University Professor Matthew Hertenstein conducted a study on how tactile communication, such as a pat on the back or a high-five, can communicate a wide range of emotions, sometimes more accurately than words.

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HPV Vaccine for Men?

A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that GARDASIL®, the quadrivalent human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine, which is currently administered for cervical cancer prevention in women, is also effective in preventing anal cancer in men.

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Ig Nobel Prize: Humor and Science

Professor Robert Pietrzak is part of a research team that was awarded the Ig Nobel prize, which honors unusual and imaginative research, for their study on the effects of voluntary inhibition of urination on cognitive processes.

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Monkeys and Beliefs

Laurie Santos tackles the question of what makes us human by studying the minds of our closest relatives, primates, and some of her recent work demonstrates that monkeys can represent the knowledge and ignorance of others, but not their beliefs.

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Award for Major AIDS Drug Deal

Yale, Oncolys Biopharma, and Bristol-Myers Squibb have received the Deals of Distinction Award from the Licensing Executive Society for a licensing agreement that will enable a promising antiretroviral drug, festinavir, to be developed as a treatment.

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