Word: calcineurin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...couple allegedly shipped more than 20 boxes of sensitive medical materials to Texas, where they were recovered in June, 2000. The stolen materials were crucial to research involving calcineurin, an enzyme that causes the immune system to reject transplanted organs. Immediately before leaving Harvard, Zhu and Kimbara had found genes that block calcineurin—a lucrative discovery for drug development...
...researchers screened cells that could block calcineurin, an enzyme that makes organ transplants difficult by causing the immune system to reject the new organs...
Using information and technology developed by McKeon, Kimbara discovered two genes which successfully block calcineurin...
...know "a little about everything and a lot about something." Harvard certainly fulfills the latter criterion. It is not hard to find people here who know just about everything about computer cache algorithms, the industrial development of Upper Silesia or FK-506's binding to and subsequent inactivation of calcineurin. However, I fear that there is too little emphasis placed on developing the general body of knowledge that all educated men and women should posses. The place to remedy that is in the Core, and it should be done...
| 1 |