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Of machine and mouse: KU Med maps genes Researchers mix new, old practices to help better understand childhood disorders By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep
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VENTURA CLUB MEMBERS Laurie Allison, from left, Dorothy Devlin, Dory Rogers and Bebe Huxtable visit at Huxtable’s home before a meeting of the women’s club, which dates back to the 19th century. As part of a long tradition, the women meet at their homes, give presentations on various topics and socialize. BELOW: The Prentiss family home, which was on the corner of 11th and Massachusetts streets, is where the organizational meeting for another women’s club, the No Name Club, took place. Annie J. Prentiss was one of the seven women who started the club. The club was originally called the Ladies Reading Circle, according to minutes from a Feb. 21, 1876, meeting. During the next five years, they could not think of another name, so on Dec. 20, 1881, they renamed it the No Name Club. See the video at ljworld.com/venturaclub.
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Kansas City, Kan. — A pairing of nextgeneration and century-old research methods is helping scientists at Kansas University Medical Center learn more about genetic disorders in children. The new is a roughly $1 It’s a very million machine that can complicated, sequence a person’s DNA intertwined in as fast as two days. The old has been used in story.” labs for a century or more: watching mice run mazes. — John Columbo, Peter Smith, KU Medical Center professor of director of KU’s molecular and integrative Life Span Institute physiology, directs the Institute for Neurological Discoveries and the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center. Smith’s research includes analyzing genes of children with rare, undiagnosed disorders, as well as children with complex but known disorders, such as autism and Tourette syndrome.
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Please see GENES, page 6A
NEPAL EARTHQUAKE Special to the Journal-World
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am at the distinguished study group known as the Ventura Club, and the topic of the day is a strawberry dessert with a wonderfully rich graham cracker crust and whipped cream. Or maybe those are cherries. To be safe, I think I need another piece of learning. Or perhaps it was a mixture of the two fruits. Another piece, please, because I’m nothing if not studious. But wait, was that really a graham cracker crust? And . . . oh, what’s that you say? The dessert isn’t the topic of the day? That’s right, there is a speaker. Yes, yes, you’ll have to forgive me, You see,
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Lawrence native springs into action to aid victims By Rochelle Valverde Twitter: @RochelleVerde
Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
I’m not the target audience for the Ventura Club. The Ventura Club is a women’s study club. But as I quickly discover while sitting in the finely appointed home of Bebe Huxtable, it is more than that. It also is a re-
minder of a different time and a different sensibility. “The founders felt it was very important to retain a certain amount of formality in their entertaining,” says Dory Rogers, the current president of the club. The founders of this club date back to 1895, yet the women still feel the same way today. As evidence of that, Dory notes the use of a silver tea pot and the lack of
“dungarees” among today’s attendees. But don’t be confused. This club isn’t about formality for the sake of formality. It is built upon an idea that may even be more foreign in today’s world: learning for the sake of learning. Dory explains that the club was founded by a group of women who had graduated from the university, which was not
After a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal on Saturday, Lawrence native Karin Feltman waited out dozens of aftershocks in an open field. Homes cracked, windows shattered, and brick walls fell into piles in the streets, said Feltman, who currently lives in Kathmandu. The earthquake, the epicenter of which was registered near Lamjung, about 50 miles from Kathmandu, has already left more than 1,800 people confirmed dead. Speaking to the JournalFeltman World from Kathmandu, Feltman explained she was at church when the earthquake struck and was thrown to the floor. “During the sermon the lights suddenly went out, and the building began to shake violently back and forth,” she said. “Some Please see VICTIMS, page 2A
Please see CLUBS, page 7A l Saturday’s earthquake was Nepal’s
worst in almost a century. Page 1B
A scrapbook of the Ventura Club, founded in 1895
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