… The brain’s reward regions could be at the heart of the MDD’s manifestations. Studies
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… In this context, energy poverty—defined as a household’s inability to attain a socially and …
George Jiglau’s work on this article has been supported by the Development Fund of the …

There is widespread agreement that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
programs should provide undergraduates with research experience. Practical issues and …

The Muller F element (4.2 Mb, ~80 protein-coding genes) is an unusual autosome of Drosophila
melanogaster; it is mostly heterochromatic with a low recombination rate. To investigate …

Although bioinformatics is becoming increasingly central to research in the life sciences,
bioinformatics skills and knowledge are not well integrated into undergraduate biology …

… The constructs were sequenced and transformed into BL21 pLys S E. coli cells. The
variants EcL26A, EcL26D, and EcI53D were purified from inclusion bodies as described (10). …

In their 2012 report, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology advocated
“replacing standard science laboratory courses with discovery-based research courses”…

… Reaching the success criterion was a Boolean equal to 1 if the subject’s performance was
higher than 60 %, and equal to 0 if it was lower. This enabled to extract for each group the …

Bioinformatics, a discipline that combines aspects of biology, statistics, mathematics, and
computer science, is becoming increasingly important for biological research. However, …

A hallmark of the research experience is encountering difficulty and working through those
challenges to achieve success. This ability is essential to being a successful scientist, but …