Dance your Ph.D. is an award given to turn your Ph.D. thesis into a dance, sponsored by Science. Maureen McKeague, a chemistry Ph.D. student at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada has been declared winner of ‘Dance Your Ph.D. 2010' Award. Her dance was an interpretation of her research on designer molecules. She gets $1000 prize ($500 for being a finalist, $500 for winning) from Science, which sponsored the contest. 45 dances were submitted to this year's contest.
McKeague's aim is to use SELEX to create aptamers. SELEX (systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment) is a technique which generates short segments of DNA and RNA called aptamers. Aptamers cheaply and accurately measure homocysteine in blood samples.
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