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...Monday’s City Council meeting, Cambridge City Councillor Marjorie C. Decker announced the breakthrough as a “huge win-win for Harvard and residents...
Scientists can now observe protein production real-time inside individual cells, according to research conducted by Harvard professor X. Sunney Xie. This study, the results of which were published last week in the journals Science and Nature, represents a breakthrough in protein-imaging technology and confirms some long-held speculations about the process protein synthesis, according to the researchers. Now, as a result of his research, “we can probe the fundamental biochemical interactions in living cells with the ultimate sensitivity, sensitivity not possible with previous technology,” said Xie, professor of chemistry and chemical biology...
...forums involving other parties such as the Europeans. But if the two sides do manage to sit down and discuss a matter as strategically important as Iraq is to both - and if they do manage to achieve some measure of accord on that issue - it will mark an historic breakthrough in public engagement between the U.S. and the Islamic Republic. And that would certainly go a long way toward transforming, over time, the climate of hostility between Washington and Tehran that continues to cloud the nuclear issue...
...Toronto Film Festival. In a sweater, loose jeans, and worn tennis shoes, his unpretentiously blunt words complement his laid-back personality. Reitman, having written countless overlooked screenplays, was almost ready to settle into a career of directing commercials and short films—until he had a breakthrough with the screenplay for “Thank You For Smoking.” Surprisingly enough, Reitman is relieved to be through with the production of the film. “Making the movie sucks,” he says, “I liked writing the movie more...
...Helping translate that dream beyond Ramingining time - and the reason for the Rome clock at Vertigo Productions - is Italian producer Domenico Procacci. First brought together on De Heer's breakthrough Bad Boy Bubby (1993), "he and Domenico got on like a house on fire," recalls Currie. A darkly comic fable about an idiot savant's reintroduction to the world, which we see and hear through his ears and eyes, Bad Boy took out the special jury prize at the Venice Film Festival and set in motion one of the film world's most unusual partnerships. Without Procacci's investment...