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Last Friday, several students sat over lunch at the Center for European Studies. We talked animatedly with historians, political scientists, and sociologists. Across the table from where we sat, a young biologist, eager to start his career in genetic research, was engaged in a lively discussion with an economic historian. In recent years, the term “interdisciplinary” has been ever more bandied about, yet suddenly it seemed that our dynamic little gathering was somehow an expression of the ideal of academic cross-pollination...
...heterosexual partners. Most heterosexual transmission seen to date has been from men to women, rather than from women to men, suggesting the possibility that women may be less efficient transmitters of the infection. However, at least 14 men have been infected by women, according to Mathilde Krim, a research biologist at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, and health authorities are concerned about the possible role of prostitutes in spreading the epidemic. Curran thinks it may prove significant that "about 15% of the men whose cases remain unexplained have a history of sexual contact with prostitutes...
...blotches discovered on rocks as deep as 1,300 ft. provided an early, startling dividend of the expedition, the scientists disclosed last week in Marquette, Mich. Using a pair of tweezers, a biologist plucked a red spot from a stone that had been taken to the surface and placed it in a vial of water. Immediately the spot sprouted tentacles and unfolded into a hydra, a primitive invertebrate. "We were expecting that at these depths Lake Superior would be a biological desert," said Team Member John Krezoski, a biologist at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. "We're coming away dazed...
Scientists hope that findings from the Sea-Link will point to solutions for some of the Great Lakes' continuing problems. With the expedition only a third over, researchers were already counting it a success. Richard Cooper, a marine biologist at the University of Connecticut and the scientific director of the project, declares that before the last dive, "we expect Mother Superior to yield up more of her secrets. We're finding things that will rewrite the book on ecology in the Great Lakes." --By Anastasia Toufexis. Reported by J. Madeleine Nash/Marquette
...with cells in a laboratory dish has been studied extensively, an approach with obvious limitations. "A new gene in cell culture can't walk funny or think strange thoughts or do what it had planned to do," says David Baltimore, director of the Whitehead Institute and a Nobel-prizewinning biologist. "You need to trace its course through a living, breathing organism...