Word: disrupt
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...Alfred L. Goldberg, professor of cell biology at Harvard Medical School, was elected into the Academy for 30 years of research on protein breakdown in cells. “We have discovered a structure in cells called the proteasone where this [protein] destruction occurs. Drugs that disrupt the proteasone’s actions are now used to treat certain blood cancers,” he explained. “We’ve uncovered a fundamental cellular process and many applications are seen in many different areas of biology.” When asked for his thoughts about the Academy...
...permit, and that Harvard University Police Department officers would be on the scene. But despite the commotion stirred up by the HIPJ and HRC activists as they walked from the Yard to the Gordon Track and Tennis Center, gathering people and chanting as they went, the protesters did not disrupt the usual flow of the Career Forum...
...what we’re most concerned about,” said OCS Director William Wright-Swadel. “[If] the students can come in, learn what they need to learn, communicate what they need to communicate in a way that doesn’t disrupt the event, we’re perfectly content...
...BGLTSA co-chairman, Ryan R. Thoreson ’07, wrote in an e-mail last night that his group’s goal “is not to disrupt the military’s efforts” and that the protest will be “educational, not confrontational...
...limping behemoths like Sony have discovered, staying ahead in electronics is a relentless challenge. A host of new technologies could disrupt LCD's emergence just as easily as LCD has begun to supplant cathode-ray tubes. Even against existing technologies, Sharp faces a formidable battle. Junzo Masuda, director of iSuppli, a market-research firm in Kyoto, says the real test is how Sharp's big-screen TVs ultimately fare against plasma display panels (PDPs), the dominant type of large-screen, flat-panel displays. Sharp may have better technology, but Masuda wonders whether the company can reduce costs enough to defeat...