Excerpts from the “Emerging Trend In Real Estate, United States and Canada 2015” published by PwC and Urban Land Institute. Raleigh/Durham (10). “Raleigh/Durham rounds out the top ten markets in this year’s survey. Interviewees expressed interest in Raleigh/Durham due to the attractiveness of the market to the millen- nial generation along with a number of […]

“The Triangle housing market continued to shown strong sales activity in the third quarter, with sales increasing 10 percent compared with the same period a year ago…. Sales were up 12 percent in September and are up 10 percent through the first nine months of the year, as buyers crowd the market despite the ongoing […]

热烈祝贺杜克大学生物化学教授保罗·莫德里奇获得2015诺贝尔化学奖 2015年诺贝尔化学奖今天在瑞典皇家科学学院揭晓，杜克大学(Duke University) 的生物化学教授保罗·莫德里奇与另外两位科学家Tomas Lindahl（英国 Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory）和Aziz Sancar（北卡教堂山分校）获奖。获奖理由是“DNA修复的机制研究”。据此前报道，在今年引文桂冠奖的获奖名单中，研究基因编辑技术CRISPR-Cas9的科学家们被认为是诺贝尔化学奖的最有力竞争者。 根据瑞典诺奖基金会资料，“DNA修复机制研究”为了解活细胞运作机制提供了基本的知识，有助于发现新的癌症治疗方式。 保罗·莫德里奇是美国杜克大学杰出的生物化学教授，霍华德·休斯医学研究所研究员。莫德里奇1973年从斯坦福大学博士毕业，他的DNA修复研究使他广为人知。 保罗·莫德里奇此次获奖在于发现了DNA的第三种修复机制。DNA的双链结构在复制的过程中会拆成两条各自作为模板形成新链。复制的时候可能会出错，让两边的碱基对不上号。但莫德里奇和同事发现，细胞会对DNA的链进行标记。正常DNA上通常会有修饰基团，但刚刚完成复制的DNA新链还没有这些修饰，蛋白质可以凭此判断哪条是旧有的、哪条是新加上的，从而知道该去修谁，即“DNA错配修复” （Mismatch Repair)。 在此，我们热烈祝贺莫德里奇教授和他的同事们所取得的成绩和荣誉！

A Nobel prize comes to Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill. Congratulation to Duke and UNC. “Paul Modrich, the James B. Duke professor in the Department of Biochemistry in the Duke Medical School, has been awarded one-third of this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his four decades of work on how mistakes in the DNA […]

If you’re a home buyer, changes to the closing process are coming in just a few days. New regulations go into effect on Saturday, October 3rd, providing new loan disclosure forms that are designed to help you better understand the terms of your home mortgage before you close on your new home. That means if you […]