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...beta...is what I call a Jekyll and Hyde molecule," Selkoe says, comparing the protein to Robert Louis Stevenson's famous tale of a scientist gone bad. "It has a good function--a Jekyll function--and then when it builds up, it has a Mr. Hyde function--it becomes toxic...
...possible that the inhibitor proteins function to control these small cancers in all individuals, and that their use in large doses could mimic the body's natural defenses, albeit on a larger scale...
During a separate function the night before the injury occurred, Cambridge police were called to the scene to respond to complaints by neighbors that 150 to 200 teenagers were milling around in the streets in front of the church at 1:30 a.m. According to representatives of Laygo Entertainment, which put on that event, organizers closed the party at 10:30 p.m. when a drunk man sought admission and refused to leave, creating a disturbance...
...Then, as now, Fennos have conferred a piercing critique of HLS, and have balanced their words upon the narrow line that separates candid commentary from mean-spiritedness," wrote Friedman. "We trust that the professors who wrote to criticize us appreciate the function Fenno serves when Fenno criticizes them...
Steen says he recognizes the much larger scale on which AOL must work, but says FAS has accomodated to the level on which it must function...