Word: containers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stopped Ronald Desrosiers, a professor of microbiology at Harvard Medical School, from championing the live-virus approach. A year after injecting a handful of chimpanzees with a solution of weakened HIV, Desrosiers exposed them to the full-strength virus. Every chimp had an immune response strong enough to contain the killer virus--at least for a while...
According to the U.S. News' figures from 1996, 21 percent of Harvard's classes contain more than 50 students, compared with 9 and 13 at Yale and Princeton, respectively...
...problem might be solved by long-acting local anesthetics. Berde and his colleagues at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have patented time-release beads that contain a commonly used drug, bupivacaine. Injected into a surgical incision, the microscopic beads may block pain for a week, possibly reducing or even eliminating the need for opiates. The hope is that they will enable patients to recover sooner. The beads are being tried on patients overseas, and Berde expects testing in the U.S. to begin soon...
...full helping of the hated vegetable to get the health benefits; a spoonful of crunchy broccoli sprouts will do the trick. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the researchers report that three-day-old broccoli sprouts (which look something like alfalfa sprouts) contain the same cancer-fighting chemical, called sulforaphane, as full-grown spears--but at concentrations 20 to 50 times as high...
...They did not contain the color crimson...