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...what can the monks of Shwe Zedi do, besides point at words in a dictionary? I asked the abbot, who replied, "Pray." As I left Shwe Zedi, he handed me a tiny, ivory-hued bead. It was, the abbot said, a bone relic of the Buddha, or it symbolized as much. I thanked him for the lucky gift, but I couldn't help thinking that the monks of Burma needed the relic far more than...
...strategy takes a bead on a much smaller region, closer to the soles of the viral bobble head's feet, where the virus fuses to the cell it infects. These regions mutate less rapidly, and in fact, in the recent study in mice, published in the current issue of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, they did not mutate at all. "If we use this approach judiciously, we should be able to keep this pocket conserved and not develop drug resistance to it," says Dr. Wayne Marasco of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, a co-author of the paper. "The exciting part...
...tattoos could replace the often painful finger-pricks that diabetics endure up to twelve times a day to monitor their blood glucose levels. The ink is composed of a glucose-detecting molecule, a color changing dye, and a molecule that mimics glucose, all of which float in spherical polymer bead. When a glucose-detecting molecule approaches the edge of the bead, it should latch onto either a glucose molecule or the glucose-like molecule. If glucose levels are high, the detecting molecule should attach to glucose in the bead, making the ink appear yellow. If glucose levels...
...markdown room." Everything's on sale - for example, a $2,500, 18-karat-gold, diamond and amethyst ring now costs $597. "We're selling things at or even below cost," Martin says. "We have to adapt." Bradsdeals.com, an aggregator of retail deals on the Web, features a $48 bead necklace from online jeweler Blue Nile. "I've followed Blue Nile for a long time," says site founder Brad Wilson, who started bradsdeals.com eight years ago. "I hadn't been aware they had a price tier that low." (See 10 things to do in New York City...
...Harvard attempt.Despite her apparent foot injury, she drilled a shot to the left side, but Gordon was up to the task, corralling the ball with a brilliant diving save.“It was a great save, she put a good kick on it, the keeper got a bead on it,” Leone said. “It’s a contest, that’s all it is, and they won it.”Then came the controversy. After Mann made a diving stop, and freshman Patricia Yau and junior Lizzy Nichols converted...