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Shawn Xu Named Pew Scholar

June 20, 2007 - LSI faculty Shawn XZ Xu has been named a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences for the year 2007. Please see the announcment from The Pew Charitable Trusts and the University of California at San Francisco.

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Shawn Xu investigates the 'sixth sense' of proprioreception

Mar. 29, 2006 - Xu and his colleagues have investigated the effects of drug addiction on proprioreception in the nematode worm C. elegans. Proprioreception is the sense of a body in space, and helps in balancing and movement.

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