Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Zeke as a freshman has been doing well right up there at No. 3 which is not easy,” Bajwa said. “He has been a game, or sometimes points away from victory, and I think it’s just a matter of a breakthrough. I would like to have seen him win, but the fact that he came so close to winning—he may have turned the corner...
...significant breakthrough, the team successfully identified that a particular gene sequence was associated with differences in telomere length between individuals. What's more, the sequence was clustered near a gene called TERC, which is already known to play a role in the production of an enzyme called telomerase. Telomerase repairs telomeres when they shorten. "That was very exciting for us," says Nilesh Samani, a cardiologist at the University of Leicester who co-led the research, which was published last week in Nature Genetics. "It gave us great confidence that we identified genetic variants on a pathway we already know...
...Where: Breakthrough has sites all over the country, including one in Cambridge...
Want to go into education? Work at Breakthrough...
...What: Breakthrough is a national non-profit organization that targets high potential, low income middle-school students, and helps high-achieving college students experience careers in education...