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		<title>Science for the sake of science</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was doing research in a genetics lab during my undergrad I constantly heard about the benefits of doing science for the sake of science.  I believed in this principle and never questioned it.  Last week, after a Genome British Columbia forum in Vancouver, I began questioning this statement.

Dr. Carl Douglas was a speaker [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sciencejournal.thethunderbird.ca/2009/01/28/science-for-the-sake-of-science/</link>
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		<title>To The Tar Sands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2007, nineteen environmentalist rode 1300 km to reach Alberta&#8217;s imfamous tar sands, stopping along the way to ask communities how the tar sands have affected them.
To The Tar Sands is a documentary of their journey that was directed and produced by UBC School of Journalism student Jodie Martinson. It highlights some of the inherent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sciencejournal.thethunderbird.ca/2009/01/26/to-the-tar-sands/</link>
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		<title>We got it all wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The media is trumpeting the coming of a pre-natal test for autism.
Simon Baron-Cohen, developmental psychologist and author of the article on which all this hype is based, said that his research is about finding the cause of autism and is not motivated by developing a pre-natal test for autism.
Doesn&#8217;t one follow from the other? Regardless [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sciencejournal.thethunderbird.ca/2009/01/13/we-got-it-all-wrong/</link>
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		<title>Pre-natal test for autism a possiblity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This touches on yesterday&#8217;s post about designer babies.
The tools to design are being crafted faster than anyone could imagine.
New research has linked high levels of testosterone in amniotic fluid, the liquid the bathes the fetus, to autism.
Sarah Boseley, health editor at the Guardian, said how it could be used as a pre-natal test for autism [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sciencejournal.thethunderbird.ca/2009/01/12/pre-natal-test-for-autism-a-possiblity/</link>
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		<title>Dizzy new heights reached in baby business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Designer babies have hit a new milestone&#8212;they can come breast cancer-free.
Well, not exactly.
A British baby girl has been born without the BRCA1 gene that is linked to breast cancer. That in itself is not special, however, the embryo she grew from was specially selected for because it didn&#8217;t have the defective BRCA1 gene.
Her story made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sciencejournal.thethunderbird.ca/2009/01/11/dizzy-new-heights-reached-in-baby-business/</link>
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		<title>New tools in gene therapy could help treat brain disorders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Elizabeth Simpson is leading a project that is developing tools that will improve gene therapy and help treat brain disorders like Alzheimer&#8217;s and Parkinson&#8217;s disease.
The Pleiades Promoter Project is based at the University of British Columbia&#8217;s Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics in Vancouver.
I had the chance to speak to Beth about the project. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sciencejournal.thethunderbird.ca/2008/12/16/new-tools-in-gene-therapy-could-help-treat-brain-disorders/</link>
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		<title>Street party rallys support for Insite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Hundreds will die if the safe injection site in Vancouver&#8217;s Downtown East closes, said a banner at the street party held along the 100-block of East Hastings tonight.
The event was trying to send a message to Stephen Harper: don&#8217;t play politics with peoples&#8217; lives.
&#8220;It really comes down to one man who doesn&#8217;t understand the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sciencejournal.thethunderbird.ca/2008/12/06/street-party-rallys-support-for-insite/</link>
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		<title>Could the origins of asthma be found in childhood?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Asthma is a chronic disease that is on the rise in Canada. Often, it starts in childhood.
There&#8217;s something about the first few years of life. What happens in those years seems to have a big effect on the development of asthma.
Maybe it&#8217;s the crib the baby slept in. Maybe it&#8217;s the exposure it had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sciencejournal.thethunderbird.ca/2008/12/04/could-the-origins-of-asthma-be-found-in-childhood/</link>
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		<title>World AIDS Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is the first day of December. You know what that means&#8212;there&#8217;s only 24 days left to buy Christmas presents.
And it&#8217;s also World AIDS Day.
You probably didn&#8217;t know that. I didn&#8217;t.
There&#8217;s one important factor in the AIDS epidemic that doesn&#8217;t get much attention. Tuberculosis has become an epidemic in many parts of the developing world [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sciencejournal.thethunderbird.ca/2008/12/01/world-aids-day/</link>
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		<title>Climate change: matter of fact or matter of concern?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Climate change, now that&#8217;s a term that&#8217;s starting to lose its meaning.
What climate change really means was the focus of a  talk given by Massachusetts Institute of Techonology PhD candidate in History, Anthropology, and Science Technology and Soceity, Candis Callison at the UBC School of Journalism this afternoon.
When Callison visited the Alaskan town of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sciencejournal.thethunderbird.ca/2008/11/24/climate-change-matter-of-fact-or-matter-of-concern/</link>
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