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    Science & Technology

    Freshmen step up in research realm

    By Mason Jones
    Published: May 31, 2011

    The Freshman Research Initiative (FRI) offers first-year science students the opportunity to do cutting-edge, original, publishable research in chemistry, biochemistry, nanotechnology, molecular biology, physics, astronomy and computer science.

    In this video, biology student Holli Duhon describes her research with DNA and RNA sequences in the FRI program’s aptamer stream.

    Find out more on the Freshman Research Initiative Web site.

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      Bill Nye said on June 12, 2011 at 12:13 p.m.
      They should do a forward genetics screen instead.
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      web tasarımı said on Sept. 25, 2011 at 12:52 p.m.
      the school of biological sciences is one of the best department in utexas

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