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Chemistry, math festival targets girls (genetics news)

... "Girls get Advertisementto see hundreds of other girls spending a weekend day at a festival to do math and science and engineering activities, and it's in the context of a DJ playing music, it's in the context of food," said Karen Flammer, senior vice president of Ride's company and a research physicist at the University of California, San Diego.

"All the workshops are very fun, hands-on workshops.

Somebody's not standing up in front of the classroom lecturing to them.

They're actually letting them take DNA out of the strawberry or calculate the density of chocolate, so they can see that science is fun, and they can share it with their friends." Astrophysicist and former astronaut Tammy Jernigan, who will speak at the Caltech festival, said parents and teachers should steer girls into advanced math courses in high school as often as they do boys.

"Our society is becoming increasingly technological," she said.

"Not all girls and boys go into science and engineering, but even if they don't … it's very important that they have a certain threshold level of knowledge.

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Genes that betrayed a desert people (genetics news)

...In the last two years, the centre has identified eight mutant genes not previously associated with a disease, as well as dozens of new mutations in other genes that were already associated with diseases.The findings are passed on to interested families who are given premarital genetic counselling and prenatal testing.More than 20 couples chose to end pregnancies over the past year, after doctors diagnosed in the fetuses terminal diseases that usually kill within the first few years of life.But there are risks.

In a small, closed society in which secrets are hard to keep, there is the danger of stigmatizing carriers and their families, subsequently lowering their chances for marriage should word get out that a genetic disease runs in the family.The researchers try to minimize that risk by approaching families confidentially through their family doctors and offering them discreet testing, even in their own homes.

Extensive genetic counselling is provided before and after testing.

Results are given only in person by genetic counsellors who walk individuals and families through the science and emotions of the process.The researchers are also working closely with local Muslim leaders to spread a message ab...

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