Improving university students' web savvy: An intervention study.

Background: Young people increasingly turn to the Internet for information about social and political issues. However, they struggle to evaluate the trustworthiness of the information they encounter online.

Aims: This pilot study investigated whether a focused curricular intervention could improve university students' ability to make sound judgements of credibility.

Brain-type and muscle-type promoters of the dystrophin gene differ greatly in structure.

The promoter of the 14 kb mRNA encoding the brain isoform of dystrophin in the mouse has been isolated and partially characterized. Unlike the promoter of the muscle dystrophin isoform, it does not contain a TATA box or other consensus sequences characteristic of the proximal region upstream of the cap sites of eukaryotic genes. Yet, it has a major initiation of transcription start site located 266 bp upstream from the first ATG which is in frame with the dystrophin coding sequence.