Word: steen
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...just an economic crisis," says Shannon Steen, a U.C. Berkeley professor who helped form Save the University to protest cuts to the budget, "it's really a political crisis around the two-thirds rule in the legislature that holds the state hostage to a minority of legislators who are not doing what the people of California want." California is the only state in the nation that has a two-thirds requirement for the passage of tax increases and to pass a budget. These two rules are at the root of the state's chronic budget woes...
...something that by all measures is a great success and tearing it down." Student leader Isaac Miller says the university community came together to "protest the de-funding of public education by the State of California and the crisis of priorities of the university administration." "It was stunning," says Steen. "In the 20 years since I was an undergraduate here, I have never seen anything like this...
...From an initial result involving thousands of different proteins, researchers narrowed the potential candidates by comparing the 12 samples to those from healthy children without appendicitis. "We analyzed the proteins to see which were statistically significant compared with [the controls], and this gave us a short list," explains Hanno Steen, director of the Proteomics Center at Children's and a co-author of the study. That short list, combined with other possible protein candidates identified in previous research on the subject, comprised 57 different possibilities. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...Over the next 18 months, researchers analyzed urine samples from 67 pediatric patients who came to Children's emergency room with possible cases of appendicitis. Of those, 25 were confirmed to have the sharply painful condition; samples from the other patients were used as controls. Steen explains that in an emergency room situation, physicians are often faced with distinguishing appendicitis from conditions involving abdominal pain, so it made sense to mimic this contrast in the protein analysis as well...
...research bears out the initial findings, Kentsis foresees the development of "a dip-stick test that can be used in a rapid-care kind of way" to diagnose appendicitis. "Here you have the opportunity to come up with a very quick test," says Steen. "Diagnosis could potentially be down to minutes, and not hours...