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Mon 13 Sep, 2010 10:23 pm
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Prof Raymond L. White = Professor Raymond L. White?
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Prof Raymond L. White, PhD, Rudi Schmid Distinguished Professor of Neurology, University of California said, "The paper reports very exciting new findings that establish a new and fundamentally distinct mechanism for the regulation of gene expression. By comparing the genomes of mouse with human, the scientists were able to show that the binding sites for gene regulatory factors are very often not in the same place between the two species. This by itself would be very surprising, but the investigators go further and demonstrate that many of the sites are imbedded within a class of DNA sequences called "transposable" elements because of their ability to move to new places in the genome.
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100607101652.htm
Prof is a common abbreviation of "Professor".
In US universities, professorships are often named after distinguished persons, such as in this case the late Rudi Schmid, former Medical Dean at the Umiversity Of California.
Read it thus:
Professor Raymond L. White, PhD, who is the Rudi Schmid Distinguished Professor of Neurology, [at the] University of California said, "The paper...
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