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Apr 04, 2013
St. Louis American
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A new report published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, reveals that self-reported feelings of well-being — that is, overall happiness and satisfaction with life — tend to increase with age, but that a person’s overall level of well-being depends on when he or she was born. Angelina R. Sutin, assistant professor of medical humanities and social sciences at the Florida State University College of Medicine, conducted the study.

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Apr 06, 2013
Citizens' Voice
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April is National Autism Awareness Month and national data highlight the importance of early detection and intervention. It is crucial that children with autism gain as many skills as possible as early as possible, because they grow up to be adults with autism on increasingly long waiting lists for supported residential placement. Research done by Amy Wetherby, director of the Autism Institute at Florida State University, and her colleagues are noted in this article.

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Apr 08, 2013
Tallahassee Democrat
Researcher offers clues on origins of life
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A structural biologist at the FSU College of Medicine has made discoveries that could lead scientists a step closer to understanding how life first emerged on Earth billions of years ago.

Professor Michael Blaber and his team produced data supporting the idea that 10 amino acids believed to exist on Earth around four billion years ago were capable of forming foldable proteins in a high-salt (halophile) environment. Such proteins would have been capable of providing metabolic activity for the first living organisms to emerge on the planet between 3.5 and 3.9 billion years ago. The results of Blaber’s three-year study, which was built around investigative techniques that took more than 17 years to develop, are published in the journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.”