Word: celling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Senior Joe Brussel, with his purple Burton backpack slung over his right shoulder, cell phone clipped to his tan cargo shorts, strolls into Frank Mandernach's advanced auto-mechanics class--late but relaxed. The rest of the class is already in the lab room, watching a student take apart a 1987 truck engine. Joe makes eye contact with Mandernach, settles into a chair out of sight of most of his classmates and pulls out a notebook. "Sometimes Mandernach just lets us get organized," he says. For the rest of the period, Joe stays to himself, his mind far away from...
...human cell is a marvel, not just of engineering but also of traffic control. Proteins are constantly shuttling within it to build and repair substructures, process energy and carry out the myriad functions that keep this basic unit of life alive...
Andrew W. Murray, a specialist in the process of cell division, will join the biological sciences department next fall, as a tenured professor working primarily in the new Harvard Center for Genomics Research...
Murray's work currently focuses on mitosis, the process of cell division and reproduction. Much of his research has examined the concept of a "spindle checkpoint," by which a dividing cell checks that each daughter cell receives exactly one half of each chromosome pair...
Until recently, such analysis has been extremely difficult, due to the inability of scientists to identify which portions of a cell change in reaction to such pressures...