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Finding a new antibiotic

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Jeremiah Yarmie
After 30 years, teixobactin, a new type of antibiotic, has been found which may be the answer to the growing problem of antibiotic resistance. This is wonderful news, but what is even more amazing...
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Winnipeg bus shelter ads target Ontario’s public school system

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Dana Hatherly
Winnipeg bus shelters are presently the platform for advertisements against policies for providing full funding to Roman Catholic schools while denying funding to other religious schools in Ontario’s public school system. “End human rights violations...
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UMSU executive reports on Frosh Fest budget

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Craig Adolphe
On Monday, Jan. 12, the UMSU executive presented a report to council for the final budget from the second annual Frosh Fest, which took place in September. Frosh Fest included a week of orientation activities...
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Architect of sexual assault maps identified

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Janelle Curry
The creator of unidentified sexual assault maps, inviting people to share their experiences of sexual assault, posted in University Centre at the University of Manitoba last December has been identified as Caroline Inglis, a...
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Royal Canoe to headline Frost Fest

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Craig Adolphe
The University of Manitoba Students’ Union unveiled plans last week for their Frost Fest set to take place at the Fort Garry campus quad on Jan. 15. The lineup for the concert features local...
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Constant vigilance

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Jeremiah Yarmie
California ground squirrels have a difficult job of avoiding becoming snake food. Rather than running away, many prey animals will display a physical signal to indicate that they are aware of their predator or...
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Making protein without nucleic acid

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Jeremiah Yarmie
Genetic information being transferred from DNA to RNA to protein – this is the central dogma of molecular biology. In the standard flow of information transfer, a protein cannot build a protein, and the...