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CTCF: Master Weaver of the Genome

CTCF is a highly conserved zinc finger protein implicated in diverse regulatory functions, including transcriptional activation/repression, insulation, imprinting, and X chromosome inactivation. Here we re-evaluate data supporting these roles in the context of mechanistic insights provided by recent genome-wide studies and highlight evidence for CTCF-mediated intra- and interchromosomal contact...

Kidemonas: The Silent Guardian

Advanced Persistent Threats or APTs are big challenges to the security of government organizations or industry systems. These threats may result in stealth attacks, but if the attack is confronted before the attacker end goal has been achieved, the attackers could become aggressive by changing the mode of attack or by resorting to some form of contingency plan, which might cause unexpected dama...

Vermont Guardian Vol

In most parts of the world, the phrase “town meeting” can mean just about any gathering where local citizens offer their opinions, hear from candidates, or endure the latest government “dogand-pony show.” As Susan Clark and Frank Bryan readily admit in All Those in Favor, their new and timely book on Vermont’s town meetings, references to the term in college textbooks “are as apt to be found in...

The Guardian (London)

Virtue should be granted its reward; DEBATE/Instead of reducing foreign aid to an all-time low, donors should target it at developing world's well-governed countries, argues SECTION: The Guardian City Page; Pg. 21 FOREIGN aid is at an all-time low. More than 50 years after the "aid era" began with the Marshall Plan in 1947, development assistance has tumbled to less than a quarter of 1 per cent...

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