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Not since the heyday of devo (or, perhaps, MC Hammer) have the worlds of nerds and rock so converged. As rockers embrace the Net with fan pages and Web-simulcast concerts, the two cultures have intermingled. Can you tell which is the band and which is the provider of bandwidth...
Sarita M. James co-chair of the student advisory committee (SAC) of the Harvard Foundation, said in her address to the visitors that the events helped her gain insight into other cultures.
But as his team made progress on one front, Ernest grew increasingly worried about the immune system's response to the transplants. Contrary to what many had supposed, fetal RPE cells did not behave as if they were immunologically neutral. In experiments in Sweden, for example, transplanted cells were rejected...
Giant pharmaceutical firms have long prospected the rain forests, screening randomly selected plants for potential products. But under Conte's direction, Shaman became one of the first companies to rely on the ancestral wisdom of native cultures. "It was a light bulb," Conte says. "Why not leverage out this knowledge...
Cheng says she started her research last January when a lab in California sent her some DNA for study. She says that most of her time in the lab is spent working with tissue cultures and proteins.