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  Naked Mole Rat Gives Cancer a Dressing-Down

  By David Bois | Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:00 AM ET

  cell replication, there is something about p16 that is programmed to prevent the rapid cell growth that forms tumors or other cancerous growths. University of Rochester researchers Vera Gorbunova and Andrei Seluanov, having shed light on p16 and its apparent programming that prevents tumo Read More

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  Debating the Real Robin Hood

  By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:33 PM ET

  benevolent, or so say the scholars who participated in the seventh biennial meeting of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies at the University of Rochester."Americans like the redistribution myth, but it isn't a medieval part of the story," said Stephen Knight of Cardif Read More

  More like this in: Cate Blanchett, The New York Times, Film, Robin Hood, Russell Crowe, Cardiff University, Douglas Fairbanks
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  Naked Vineyards, Free EV Charging, Meatless Mondays and More!

  By Planet Green | Thu Oct 8, 2009 8:15 AM ET

  showing far-off nature scenes quite yet. It just might make you a more caring, community-oriented, and generous person, says a new study by the University of Rochester. Free Electricity for EVs Might One Day Become Common - There's a good chance that many businesses will offer fre Read More

  More like this in: TreeHugger, Science, Environment