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IBM Study Finds Higher Education to Play a Pivotal Role in Bridging India’s Skill Gap

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Sixty-one percent of India’s higher education leaders said that the education system is unable to respond to society’s changing needs

NEW DELHI – 03 Jul 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a study conducted by the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) in cooperation with the Economist Intelligence Unit, to evaluate India’s growing skills challenge and proposed recommendations to bridge the gap. (more…)

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Mutation Stops Worms from Getting Drunk

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AUSTIN, Texas — Neuroscientists at The University of Texas at Austin have generated mutant worms that do not get intoxicated by alcohol, a result that could lead to new drugs to treat the symptoms of people going through alcohol withdrawal.

The scientists accomplished this feat by inserting a modified human alcohol target into the worms, as reported this week in The Journal of Neuroscience. (more…)

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