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...stem cell research center in California, plans to revolutionize medical care by looking for cure for diseases like Parkinson’s, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and spinal cord injuries, Eli Broad said at the press conference. Broad also said he hopes the institute will serve as a catalyst in the economy of the biotech industry, “that it will foster the creation of jobs and encourage a robust tax base and have a far-reaching and long-lasting economic impact,” he said. Although the Harvard-MIT Broad Institute, created in 2004, also states...
...other people's rights and feelings. And as a Muslim, I was not only hurt but also surprised and disgusted by the cartoons of Muhammad. When the world is on the brink of dividing into two deadly blocs, the Muslims and the West, such cartoons only serve as a catalyst to widen the gap. Even moderate Muslims who are against terrorism can't tolerate any mocking of the Holy Prophet, no matter how the joke is intended. Komal Mehreen Karachi...
...invisible to the naked eye. But, in fact, the global and intellectual effects of one microscopic murderer are beyond the scope of anything we can see. For all of its horror, AIDS is beginning to do what few other problems have been able to accomplish: serving as a catalyst to bring the study of humans as people and humans as organisms closer together than ever before. And one introductory lecture course at Harvard is using the study of AIDS to bridge that gap, too.The Life Sciences 1 curriculum has taken on the ambitious task of providing curious and over-confident...
...could be a catalyst for other institutions—like Harvard—to ask themselves these questions and try to find out the answers,” O’Neill said...
...Gates commitment acts as a catalyst. They needed the drug companies to come on board, and the major health agencies, the churches, the universities and a whole generation of politicians who were raised to believe that foreign aid was about as politically sexy as postal reform. And that is where Bono's campaign comes in. He goes to churches and talks of Christ and the lepers, citing exactly how many passages of Scripture ("2,103") deal with taking care of the poor; he sits in a corporate boardroom and talks about the role of aid in reviving the U.S. brand...