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One unlucky letter causes an infant epilepsy

A 20 year old mystery was solved this week with the discovery that an epilepsy that affects infants is caused by the change of a single letter in one gene. Seizures in infancy are not rare, but this familial epilepsy occurs in probably 60 families acro…

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2011 Fellows announced

Coral, Cancer Capsules & Conservation Three $20,000 L’Oréal Australia For Women in Science Fellowships for 2011 were awarded to  talented Australian women in science on Tuesday, 23 August 2011. L’Oréal this year awards three remarkable young…

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