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...protein function and interactions. “What we’re really trying to do is to capture [protein] information and leverage it to understand the biological system,” Quackenbush said. “The kinds of techniques that we’re talking about have broad applications, from looking at malaria to seeing how plants grow. We want to understand protein function and, more importantly, dysfunction in the context of diseases...
...urgency of gaining a deep and nuanced understanding of it, focus on language is misplaced for two reasons. First of all, while language sheds light on culture, fundamentally it is just a communication tool. One semester in African political systems or African history will provide a much more broad and profound knowledge of Africa than learning basic grammar and vocabulary in Yoruba. It is far more important for the vast majority who know very little about Africa to learn about its particularities, and quickly, which is most easily done in one’s own language...
...important to reflect on this misdeed, not because it exposes a “pattern of ignorance” or “atmosphere of racial tension” as many at Columbia are quick to allege, but because it demonstrates a broad and dangerous pattern of students at diverse liberal universities resorting to histrionics in the face of small, isolated occurrences...
...Herr’s roommate, Daphne Rubin-Vega, offered incoherent musings about broad-based intolerance. “I also don’t want people to think that [the vandalism] is what racism is,” she said. “Racism is much more subtle...
Scientists at Harvard and MIT’s Broad Institute have mapped the genes of man’s best friend, the dog, in the hopes of uncovering insights into diseases that affect both humans and canines. The results, published in the December 8 issue of the science journal Nature, include the first comparative analysis of three mammalian genomes—human, mouse, and dog. Tarjei S. Mikkelsen, a graduate student at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and one of the leaders of the research project, said that researchers were surprised that the sequences that...