And it allows Dr Schneider to pretend he is a protein looking for a binding site.

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Jay Pasachoff, an astronomer at Williams College, in Massachusetts, and a member of Dr Schneider's team, will be observing the transit of Venus from Thessaloniki, in Greece, to test this theory.

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It means that Dr Schneider can tell whether or not the signal from any particular binding site is too noisy to be useful in other words, whether it is a damaging mutation.

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In Arizona, Dr Schneider will attempt to find sulphur.

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Recently, Dr Schneider has addressed this problem, too.

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Dr. Schneider points out that the drug Dimebon bears some chemical similarity to various antidepressants and anti-psychotic drugs that improve behavior.

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Dr. Schneider says that in Ireland people with a family history of Tay-Sachs may request testing, but routine screening for the disease isn't done.

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