Word: farber
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This makes vaccine development extremely risky. A weakened strain of SIV that protected adult monkeys, for example, looked safe until researchers at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston showed that newborn monkeys with immature immune systems did not respond as healthy adults do. All the young primates, in fact, developed the very disease the weakened virus was supposed to prevent. For this and a host of other reasons, most AIDS researchers argue that the only prudent strategy is to concoct a hybrid vaccine, putting the key features of a disabled AIDS virus into something more benign than a retrovirus...
Sponsored by the Eliot House Committee, the ice-skating show has raised over $1.6 million for the Dana Farber Cancer Foundation's Jimmy Fund over the last quarter century...
Prior to Sunday afternoon's performance, the figure skaters will spend time skating with children from the Dana Farber Institute. There will also be an ice cream bash following Sunday's show for the performers and children from the institute...
...band was brought back for an encore of "Wild Man Moore," an obscure Ellington tune from the Paris Blues Suite which featured tenor Andy Farber in a Paul Gonsalves feature. Marsalis ended the tune by leading the trumpet section offstage followed by trombones and saxes in a second-line march. A five-minute standing ovation brought Marsalis back with pianist Eric Reed for a rendition of Marsalis's best composition of the evening, the ballad "Spanish Yaounde." Another five minutes brought the entire band back for "Across the Track Blues" to close the night...
Attempts to reach Walsh, Dana-Farber Chair Gary Countryman and several other top administrators were unsuccessful yesterday...