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What's exciting to researchers is that the confusing array of genes associated with autism are beginning to make some kind of sense. "We are starting to get convergence around genes that affect how synapses and connections in the brain are made and maintained ... particularly in the frontal lobe" says Geraldine Dawson, chief science officer for Autism Speaks, an advocacy group that, along with the National Institutes of Health, funds the AGRE database. The hope, says Dawson, a co-author of the two Nature papers, is that researchers could ultimately develop drugs that affect the biochemical pathways associated with these...
...coast of Africa as a way of tracking how dust emission rates have changed in response to climate variation. Because the drying of the Northern African Sahel region has caused widespread famine in recent decades, Mukhopadhyay says his research may be useful in understanding how further climate change will affect the region in the future. In addition to being an incisive and broad-ranging researcher, Mukhopadhyay also teaches Earth and Planetary Sciences 7, the department’s introductory course on geological sciences. Several students who have taken his courses praised his enthusiasm and sense of humor, his accessibility...
...advertised until November 2008, ultimately led to the recent announcement that Jehn would stay on as the Writing Program’s permanent director.Jehn’s selection has prompted both praise and criticism as those with knowledge of the program consider how his selection will affect the direction the program will take in the future.AN ADMINISTRATIVE FOCUSA graduate of the University of Chicago and the University of Virginia, Jehn first came to Harvard in 1997 as an Expos preceptor. Jehn has since climbed the Writing Program’s administrative ladder: serving as the head preceptor of Expos...
...asked my cabbie, Jacobo, 57 if he had heard there was an influenza advisory. He said, "This is Acapulco, nothing like that happens here, we might have a few problems with the drug gangs, but do not worry, lady, this does not affect you people." I pressed him and he said: "the flu would scare the tourists and we cannot afford that, a week from now we have the Tourism Fair, we need the money. No, we do not have the flu here. Here we have open air, sea breezes, there can be nothing like that here. Do not believe...
Leaving the church I stopped a family of six, all wearing masks and asked them why they took the precautions. Justino, 46, a chemical engineer, said, "Being far away from Mexico, does not mean this cannot affect us. I am worried for my four children. All are under 14 and classes have not been suspended here. I think prevention is most important, the authorities have the responsibility to let us know what is going on. I think classes should be suspended. My children will not be going to school this Monday, until I know it is safe." His wife Monica...