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Purdue University, a top public research institution, offers higher education at its highest proven value. Committed to affordability, the university has frozen tuition and most fees at 2012-13 levels. Purdue has about 40,000 students at its West Lafayette campus and was ranked as the fourth best public university in the nation by the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings 2019. With 25 alumni who became astronauts, including the first and last person on the moon, Purdue is known as the “Cradle of Astronauts.” Committed to pursuing scientific discoveries and engineered solutions, Purdue has streamlined pathways for faculty and student innovators who have a vision for moving the world forward.

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Election workers prepare to mail absentee ballots to Americans, including those living overseas. Allison Joyce/Getty Images

Overseas US voters get ignored by political campaigns − but could be crucial supporters

US citizens living abroad are eligible to vote, but they face administrative hurdles to casting ballots and are rarely asked to support candidates.
O RNA é mais do que apenas uma transição entre o DNA e a produção de proteínas nas células, sendo capaz de também regular o funcionamento dos genes, e por isso uma promissora avenida para desenvolvimento de novos tratamentos para doenças como o câncer. Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo Library via Getty Images

MicroRNA, descoberta ganhadora do Nobel de Medicina de 2024, pode curar doenças ao controlar o genoma

Victor Ambros e Gary Ruvkun ganharam o Prêmio Nobel de Fisiologia ou Medicina de 2024 pela descoberta dos microRNAs, moléculas que ligam e desligam os genes - e provocam doenças quando não funcionam corretamente.
RNA is more than just a transitional state between DNA and protein. Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo Library via Getty Images

MicroRNA is the Nobel-winning master regulator of the genome – researchers are learning to treat disease by harnessing how it controls genes

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their discovery of microRNAs, molecules that turn genes on and off – and cause disease when they go awry.

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