Picking up the pace

The Tenth District Economy: Picking Up the Pace

The Tenth District economy improved overall during 1993 thanks to a booming construction sector and healthy growth in services. The district’s gain was uneven, however, because other major sectors of the region’s economy remained mixed. The agricultural and mining sectors were flat, while manufacturing continued to struggle. Economic performance diverged considerably across the seven district s...

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Picking Up the Trail of Phylogenetic Footprints

Non-coding sequence in eukaryotes encodes functionally important signals for the regulation of gene expression. Since these elements are evolutionary conserved among related taxa due to stabilizing selection they accumulate less mutations than adjacent non-functional DNA. These conserved non-coding sequences with potential regulatory activity, are known as phylogenetic footprints. They can be d...

Picking up the tab for erythropoietin.

for interplay among these factors is likely to be most productive.29 We already know much about the environments in which multiple sclerosis is common and about relevant host factors (including those with a genetic basis). The agent(s) remains a mystery, although an infectious agent has long been suspected. More than 20 viruses have been linked with multiple sclerosis over the years, but in no ...

Picking up patterns in language

Laura Batterink is a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University. She earned her BA in neuroscience from Middlebury College in 2007 and her PhD in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Oregon in 2012. Her research focuses on the contribution of implicit and explicit mechanisms to language acquisition and related forms of learning. This research has implications for understanding why ...