Bad Decisions Arise From Faulty Information, Not Faulty Brain Circuits
Posted On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW JERSEY Tags: Carlos Brody, Matthew Botvinick, Molecular Biology, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, psychology
Making decisions involves a gradual accumulation of facts that support one choice or another. A person choosing a college might weigh factors such as course selection, institutional reputation and the quality of future job prospects.
But if the wrong choice is made, Princeton University researchers have found that it might be ...
Exploring The Crossroads Of Genetics And Policy
Posted On Friday, December 14, 2012 By USA Education News. Under NEW JERSEY Tags: Keith Wailoo, Molecular Biology, president of Princeton University, Shirley M. Tilghman
"Genes and Justice."
That unexpected combination of words led to the "question of the day" that lit up on a screen in front of 26 Princeton undergraduates: "What changes in policy and society, if any, are needed to ensure that genetic evidence produces true justice?"
Seated together at one end of a ...
Four on faculty elected fellows of American Association for the Advancement of Science
Posted On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 By USA Education News. Under ILLINOIS Tags: Anthony Kossiakoff, Biophysical Dynamics, Molecular Biology, University of Chicago
Four University of Chicago faculty members were elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the organization announced on Nov. 29.
The UChicago fellows are: Anthony Kossiakoff, the Otho S.A. Sprague Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics; Angela Olinto, Professor in ...
Princeton Researchers Identify Unexpected Bottleneck in the Spread of Herpes Simplex Virus
Posted On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 By USA Education News. Under NEW JERSEY Tags: bottleneck, Medical Center, Molecular Biology, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, simplex virus
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New research suggests that just one or two individual herpes virus particles attack a skin cell in the first stage of an outbreak, resulting in a bottleneck in which the infection may be vulnerable to medical treatment.par
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Unlike most viruses that spread to new cells by bombarding them with millions of ...