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Enrollment is now open for online M.S. in Molecular Medicine courses. Selected first-year courses are now available online. They offer the same quality and accredited curricula as an on-campus course, but with a flexible schedule.

For more information: Contact, Kate Pelusi at kpelusi@drexelmed.edu.

The Master of Science in Molecular Medicine Program provides training in the academic, research and entrepreneurial aspects of the biomedical sciences with an emphasis on translational research in the development of therapeutics and vaccines.

Participation in the program will provide enhanced educational credentials through a flexible curriculum, with most classes offered in the early evening to maximize accessibility. Classes can be attended at any of three Drexel University College of Medicine locations: Center City and Queen Lane campuses in Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center in nearby Doylestown. State-of-the-art videoconferencing provides real-time interactive learning at all three locations.

Online versions of selected first-year courses are now available.

In addition to broad geographic access, the curriculum provides flexibility in content and course load. Most students will complete the program in two years through completion of required courses and electives selected from two menus: research theory and laboratory research. The latter includes the option of either an intensive summer research internship in a biotechnology-based company or part-time research training in an academic research setting. Some students may opt to complete the program on a part-time basis, taking up to four years. In either sequence, no dissertation is required. Program directors and course faculty will work closely with each student to best achieve his or her specific goals.

The Master of Science in Molecular Medicine Program is designed to provide academic and practical biotechnological knowledge in translational research, particularly in the areas of molecular therapeutics and vaccine development.

The molecular medicine program is ideally suited for enhancing the scientific credentials of the following groups:

The molecular medicine program is designed to be convenient and flexible to accommodate students. It features:

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How signals are transmitted from receptors to biological effectors

How does the cell maintain a redox environment in the ER appropriate for oxidative protein folding

We study the excitatory glutamate activated receptor-channels in the vertebrate central nervous system

How Ras-related GTPases regulate basic cellular processes

To understand the biology and enzymology of protein palmitoylation

How bacterial signaling is controlling biofilm formation and pathogenicity

To understand the molecular and cellular events that direct the formation of vertebrate organs

We study the structure and function of nicotinic acetylcholine and glutamate receptors in signal transduction

To reveal the architecture and molecular mechanisms of membrane proteins that mediate extracellular signaling

The mission of the Department of Molecular Medicine is to make fundamental discoveries in basic research that will be relevant to and impact the biomedical community; educate and train graduate students, postdoctoral (Ph.D) and DVM fellows, and educate veterinary students in the basic biological concepts that underlie the development of treatment strategies.

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Chrissy Teigen Deletes Choking Instagram Video

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American model Chrissy Teigen has caused quite a stir due to her recent Instagram video upload.

Although the video was a prank, it raised concerns from many of her Instagram followers, as it initially looked like anything but a joke.

As a matter of fact, lots of fans found it quite creepy and offensive.

The short 15-second clip features Teigen and her husband, R&B soul singer John Legend. In the video, John Legend is grabbing Teigen by the throat while she wished her fans Merry Christmas. However, the video doesnt stop there.

It actually gets a little more disconcerting. The camera then moved to focus on his hand closing around her neck. Teigen even struggled, and fought back while crying out for help.

To the average viewer, the footage appeared to be real and quite disturbing. There was no clear ending as the clip ended abruptly. But, as soon as it was posted, the comments started pouring in, and the video quickly began to attract attention outside of Instagram.

What started as a joke turned out to be rather offensive. A number of critics even called the actual dramatization tasteless. Shortly after Teigen began noticing the negative comments and backlash, she immediately removed the video from her Instagram timeline.

While most who viewed the actual video were outraged, this isnt the first time Teigen has taken an Instagram joke too far. UPI reports that the Sports Illustrated model posted a video that she coined, raspberry vagina. The video, which was posted back in October,featured an obscene gesture and an offensive sexual innuendo.

It captured Teigen blowing an actual raspberry into another models crotch while another unidentified person explained the terminology.

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Audio-Digest Foundation Announces the Release of Internal Medicine Volume 60, Issue 33: Integrative Nutrition

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Glendale, CA (PRWEB) December 28, 2013

Audio-Digest Foundation announces the release of Internal Medicine Volume 60, Issue 33: Integrative Nutrition.

The goal of this program is to improve the application of integrative nutrition in cancer care and explore the potential association between vitamin D deficiency and cardiac disease. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1. Counsel patients on nutritional strategies to reduce risk for cancer. 2. Summarize data supporting the potential impact of a diet high in omega-3 fatty acids on the progression of certain cancers and the efficacy of chemotherapeutic agents. 3. Identify mushrooms with potential therapeutic benefits for patients with cancer who undergo chemotherapy. 4. Consider prescribing cannabis for management of cancer-related symptoms. 5. Monitor and correct deficiencies of vitamin D in patients at risk for coronary artery disease.

The original programs were presented by Donald I. Abrams, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Integrative Oncologist, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine; Chief, Hematology-Oncology, San Francisco General Hospital. Brandi J. Witt, MD, Cardiologist, Lakeview Hospital Heart Center, HealthPartners Medical Group and Clinics, Stillwater, MN.

Audio-Digest Foundation, the largest independent publisher of Continuing Medical Education in the world, records over 10,000 hours of lectures every year in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, family practice, gastroenterology, general surgery, internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics/gynecology, oncology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, otolaryngology, pediatrics, psychology, and urology, by the leading medical researchers at the top laboratories, universities, and institutions.

Recent researchers have hailed from Harvard, Cedars-Sinai, Mayo Clinic, UCSF, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Kansas Medical Center, The University of California, San Diego, The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, The University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and many others.

Out of these cutting-edge programs, Audio-Digest then chooses the most clinically relevant, edits them for clarity, and publishes them either every week or every two weeks.

In addition, Audio-Digest publishes subscription series in conjunction with leading medical societies: DiabetesInsight with The American Diabetes Association, ACCEL with The American College of Cardiology, Continuum Audio with The American Academy of Neurology, and Journal Watch Audio General Medicine with Massachusetts Medical Society.

For 60 years, the global medical community of doctors, nurses, physician assistants, and other medical professionals around the world has subscribed to Audio-Digest specialty series in order to remain current in their specialties as well as to maintain their Continuing Education requirements with the most cutting-edge, independent, and unbiased continuing medical education (CME).

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"If America Doesn’t ABOLISH The FED, The FED Will ABOLISH AMERICA" | G. Edward Griffin – Video

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"If America Doesn #39;t ABOLISH The FED, The FED Will ABOLISH AMERICA" | G. Edward Griffin
On December 23rd 1913, Woodrow Wilson signed into effect the Federal Reserve Act. Today, on the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve, author of "The Crea...

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There Was No Need For WW 2 / Rudolph Hess • Dennis Cuddy w/ Radio Liberty 12.13.13 – Video

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There Was No Need For WW 2 / Rudolph Hess Dennis Cuddy w/ Radio Liberty 12.13.13
The Revival of the Nazi Plan Dr. Dennis Cuddy states, "...For some reason, most people do not seem to take [the secret Nazi plan for today] seriously, saying...

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The C-USA champion Rice Owls arrive in Memphis for the 2013 Autozone Liberty Bowl – Video

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The C-USA champion Rice Owls arrive in Memphis for the 2013 Autozone Liberty Bowl
The day after Christmas is typically a quiet time on the Rice University campus, but this year -- like last year -- the football Owls were making some noise....

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Liberty Bowl, Grizzlies, Concert Luring Crowds Downtown

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(Memphis) The Liberty Bowl is still days away, but Mississippi State and Rice football players are already in town warming up, and fans are beginning to flock downtown.

At Miss Pollys Soul City Cafe on Beale, they count down the days to the Liberty Bowl.

Employees say after three very slow weeks, business is picking up.

It is really amazing right now. I dont know if I have seen this many people on the street in a month,, said Lisa Smith with Miss Pollys.

At the Holiday Inn Select on Union the rooms are filling up fast.

The sale staff says with the cancellation of the St. Jude Marathon and a disappointing December, theyre grateful for the guests.

We are really excited. Any time downtown fills up we are really excited, said Cindi Lewis.

Along with the Liberty Bowl team welcome party at Autozone Park Friday night, there is also a sold out concert at the FedEx Forum.

This weekend there is also a Grizzlies game, a Tigers game, and then a Liberty Bowl Parade on Beale Street on Monday.

People who work on Beale say from now until the middle of next week, the street should be hopping.

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Libertarianism – Information Philosopher

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Libertarians believe that strict determinism and freedom are incompatible. Freedom seems to require some form of indeterminism. "Radical" libertarians believe that one's actions are not determined by anything prior to a decision, including one's character and values, and one's feelings and desires. This extreme view, held by leading libertarians such as Robert Kane, Peter van Inwagen and their followers, denies that the will has control over actions. Critics of libertarianism properly attack this view. If an agent's decisions are not connected in any way with character and other personal properties, they rightly claim that the agent can hardly be held responsible for them. A more conservative or "modest" libertarianism has been proposed by Daniel Dennett and Alfred Mele. They and many other philosophers and scientists have proposed two-stage models of free will that keep indeterminism in the early stages of deliberation, limiting it to creating alternative possibilities for action. Most libertarians have been mind/body dualists who, following Ren Descartes, explained human freedom by a separate mind substance that somehow manages to act in the physical world. Some, especially Immanuel Kant, believed that our freedom only existed in a transcendental or noumenal world, leaving the physical world to be completely deterministic. Religious libertarians say that God has given man a gift of freedom, but at the same time that God's foreknowledge knows everything that man will do. In recent free will debates, these dualist explanations are called "agent-causal libertarianism." The idea is that humans have a kind of agency (an ability to act) that cannot be explained in terms of physical events. One alternative to dualism is called "event-causal libertarianism," in which some events are uncaused or indeterministically caused. Note that eliminating strict determinism does not eliminate causality. We can still have events that are caused by indeterministic prior events. And these indeterministic events have prior causes, but the prior causes are not sufficient to determine the events precisely. In modern physics, for example, events are only statistical or probabilistic. We can call this soft causality, meaning not pre-determined but still having a causal explanation. Still another position is to say that human freedom is uncaused or simply non-causal. This would eliminate causality. Some philosophers think "reasons" or "intentions" are not causes and describe their explanations of libertarian freedom as "non-causal." We can thus present a taxonomy of indeterminist positions. It is claimed by some philosophers that libertarian accounts of free will are unintelligible. No coherent idea can be provided for the role of indeterminism and chance, they say. They include the current chief spokesman for libertarianism, Robert Kane. 1 The first libertarian, Epicurus, argued that as atoms moved through the void, there were occasions when they would "swerve" from their otherwise determined paths, thus initiating new causal chains. The modern equivalent of the Epicurean swerve is quantum mechanical indeterminacy, again a property of atoms. We now know that atoms do not just occasionally swerve, they move unpredictably whenever they are in close contact with other atoms. Everything in the material universe is made of atoms in unstoppable perpetual motion. Deterministic paths are only the case for very large objects, where the statistical laws of atomic physics average to become nearly certain dynamical laws for billiard balls and planets. Many determinists are now willing to admit that there is real indeterminism in the universe. 2,3 Libertarians should agree with them that if indeterministic chance was the direct direct cause of our actions, that would not be freedom with responsibility. Determinists might also agree that if chance is not a direct cause of our actions, it would do no harm. In which case, libertarians should be able to convince determinists that if chance provides real alternatives to be considered by the adequately determined will, it provides real alternative possibilities for thought and action. It provides freedom and creativity. Libertarians should give the determinists, at least the compatibilists, the kind of freedom they say they want, one that provides an adequately determined will and actions for which we can take responsibility.

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Clarke, R. (2003). Libertarian Accounts of Free Will, Oxford University Press.

Dennett, D. C. (1978). Brainstorms : philosophical essays on mind and psychology. Montgomery, Vt., Bradford Books. (see "Giving the Libertarians What They Say They Want.")

Kane, R. (2001). The Oxford Handbook of Free Will. Oxford ; New York, Oxford University Press.

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Western Dems blast NSA surveillance

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Western Democrats on the ballot in 2014 are strongly condemning the National Security Agency.

Montana Lt. Gov. John Walsh, a candidate for Senate who is likely to be appointed when Sen. Max Baucus (D) becomes ambassador to China, is the latest in a long line of Democrats to protest, releasing a statement Friday that blasted a federal judges ruling that the NSAs bulk collection of phone records is legal.

Outspoken criticism of NSA programs allows potentially vulnerable incumbents to distance themselves from a president whose popularity is sagging while scoring points with liberals and appealing to the regions libertarian streak.

The NSAs massive collection of law-abiding Americans phone records chips away at our fundamental right to privacy, Walsh said. Fighting decisions like this is why I am running for the U.S. Senate because Montanans deserve a leader who has the courage to secure our nation without sacrificing freedoms.

Alaska Sen. Mark Begich (D) is building his mailing list with a petition on his campaigns web site urging Congress to immediately stop the call-collection program.

(Also on POLITICO: Judge rules NSA phone tracking legal)

This is an enormous invasion of every Alaskans right to privacy, Begichs web site says. The government should not have the ability to collect our information without a warrant.

Colorado Sen. Mark Udall (D) went on ABCs This Week Sunday to urge President Barack Obama to consider all 46 of the recommendations in a report addressing the collection of phone data.

It doesnt fit the standard in the Fourth Amendment of unreasonable search and seizure, he said of the program.

Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley (D) has been one of the most vocal boosters of more congressional oversight of NSA. Hes pushed legislation, with bipartisan support, that would prevent the government from keeping FISA court interpretations of the law secret.

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Why I fled libertarianism — and became a liberal

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The night before the 2008 Nevada Republican convention, the Ron Paul delegates all met at a Reno high school. Although Id called myself a libertarian for almost my entire adult life, it was my first exposure to the wider movement.

And boy, was it a circus. Many members of the group were obsessed with the gold standard, the Kennedy assassination and the Fed. Although Libertarians believe government is incompetent, many of them subscribe to the most fringe conspiracy theories imaginable. Airplanes are poisoning America with chemicals (chemtrails) or the moon landings were faked. Nothing was too far out. A great many of them really think that 9-11 was an inside job. Even while basking in the electoral mainstream, the movement was overflowing with obvious hokum.

During the meeting, a Ron Paul staffer, a smart and charismatic young woman, gave a tip to the group for the upcoming convention.

Dress normal, she said. Wear suits, and dont bring signs or flags. Dont talk about conspiracy theories. Just fit in. Her advice was the kind you might hear given to an insane uncle at Thanksgiving.

Then next day, I ran into that same operative at the convention, and I complimented her because Ron Paul delegates were being accepted into the crowd. I added, Were going to win this thing.

Bring in the clowns, she said, and smiled before I lost her in the mass of people.

I will never forget that moment: Bring in the clowns. At the time, I considered myself a thoughtful person, yet I could hardly claim to be one if you judged me by the company I kept. The young lady knew something I had not yet learned: most of our supporters were totally fucking nuts.

I came by my own libertarian sensibilities honestly. I grew up in a mining town that produced gold, silver and copper; but above all, Battle Mountain, Nev. made libertarians. Raised on 40-acre square of brown sage brush and dead earth, we burned our own garbage and fired guns in the back yard.

After leaving my small town upbringing, I learned that libertarians are made for lots of reasons, like reading the bad fiction of Ayn Rand or perhaps the passable writing of Robert Heinlein. In my experience, most seemed to be poor, white and undereducated. They were contortionists, justifying the excesses of the capitalist elite, despite being victims if libertarian politics succeed.

If you think that selfishness and cruelty are fantastic personal traits, you might be a libertarian. In the movement no one will ever call you an asshole, but rather, say you believe in radical individualism.

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