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Researchers Develop A Method To Evaluate Variations Identified In Breast Cancer Susceptibility Genes (Medical News Today)

9 Jul 2008

Using mouse embryonic stem cells, researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, have developed a new method to evaluate which mutations, or changes, in a gene known to increase breast cancer susceptibility, may lead to cancer. The new test, called a functional assay, is more comprehensive and reliable than most current methods.

Uganda: Don Urges On Vocational Skills (AllAfrica.com)

9 Jul 2008

THE Government should support institutes that provide vocational skills as a way of addressing unemployment, a Makerere University lecturer has said.

IIT selection under lens (The Telegraph)

9 Jul 2008

New Delhi, July 8: The human resource development ministry has asked IIT Kharagpur to explain discrepancies in the 2006 admission process of the Indian Institutes of Technology that may have denied seats to 994 deserving candidates.