{"id":84,"date":"2006-11-07T17:20:06","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T21:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=84"},"modified":"2008-08-05T11:17:58","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T15:17:58","slug":"genetics-team-coming-to-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Genetics team coming to Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the news today<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A multimillion-dollar deal will bring a top group of genetics researchers from Duke University to the University of Miami.<\/p>\n

The group’s leaders, husband-and-wife team Jeffery Vance and Margaret Pericak-Vance, discovered genes associated with diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and macular degeneration while running Duke’s Center for Human Genetics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the news today: A multimillion-dollar deal will bring a top group of genetics researchers from Duke University to the University of Miami. The group’s leaders, husband-and-wife team Jeffery Vance and Margaret Pericak-Vance, discovered genes associated with diseases such as … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-1m","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":491,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=491","url_meta":{"origin":84,"position":0},"title":"Heading into the next semester","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"For those of you who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m taking college courses in my free time with the future objective of becoming a science teacher. 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