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FISH OIL: NOT A CURE FOR ALL Fish-oil capsules may do more harm than good for heart patients with implanted defibrillators, suggests a study in J.A.M.A. After six months, 46% of the patients taking fish oil had abnormal heart rhythms, compared with 36% of patients in the placebo group...
...pursue opportunities at home. An offshoot of Beijing's Tsinghua University (often called the M.I.T. of China), CapitalBio is among an élite group of Chinese life-sciences companies and research institutes. At the Beijing Genomics Institute researchers have decoded the rice genome and worked to find a cure for SARS. CapitalBio has already shown it also plays on the world stage. Awarded the contract to test athletes for banned substances at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, CapitalBio has designed a new chip that can screen as many as 10,000 samples a day (compared with just a few hundred under...
...hopes to use the stem cell lines he has created to study this disease and eventually provide a cure...
...Harvard Corporation announced in April that it was withdrawing its holdings in the company, a seemingly unachievable goal was achieved. Yet while calling for divestment from PetroChina was certainly appropriate in this situation, there were other times this year when divestment seemed to be the catchword—the cure-all—for Harvard’s complicity, however tangential, to a grave world problem...
...decorated with Mao memorabilia. Perhaps in a time of galloping economic modernization and social upheaval, Chinese crave the reassuring continuity provided by a larger-than-life figure from their recent past. Reading this atom bomb of a book, in the unlikely event it gets published in China, would surely cure them of that...