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Professor of Medicine Peter H. Schur and Dr. Matthew Liang, both physicians at Brigham and Women's Hospital, have worked as consultants for lawyers representing corporations producing breast implants...
...Science, Woodward announced that he had isolated DNA from an ancient creature that he was 90% sure was a dinosaur. If enough of it were collected, such a sample could, in theory, be cloned into a living specimen -- just like in the movies. Woodward, an associate professor at Brigham Young University, extracted the DNA from two bone fragments found in a Utah coal mine, where they had been protected by muck and never fossilized...
...develop brain lesions identical to those detected in autopsies of Alzheimer's sufferers. By scouring the scientific literature, he learned that people with Down syndrome are very sensitive to tropicamide, the drug used to dilate the pupil of the eye. Potter then approached Leonard Scinto, a neuroscientist now at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, about the possibility of using the drug to spot Alzheimer...
Scientists have a test for Alzheimer's disease, which until now could only be diagnosed with certainty after death, according to a study released today and published by Science. Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and at Harvard say an eyedrop drug called tropicamide causes pupils in the eyes of Alzheimer's patients to dilate approximately four times more readily than in those of people without the brain-debilitating disease. Former President Reagan's revelation last weekend that he's an Alzheimer's victim is expected to focus national attention on the disease. Still, the availability...
Romney, a 23-year-old junior at Brigham Young University, said he began working on his father's campaign in May and has made 15 to 20 appearances on his behalf. But he said he doesn't expect to follow in his father's footsteps...