Word: functionally
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...while they are young should not be discounted I'm 35 and a woman scientist. Your article "The German Question," about the struggle for gender equality and the difficulties workingwomen face underlined issues that are very much my everyday reality [Jan. 30]. After learning about the ways other societies function, I believe there is still much progress to be made here in Germany. Like many others, irrespective of gender, who have spent a few years abroad, I am trying to reintegrate myself into German society, but I find it immensely hard to do so. At least one reason could...
...measuring the current that flows across the sperm’s plasma membrane for the first time, Yuriy V. Kirichok and Betsy Navarro of the Children’s Hospital in Boston, found that sperm have a unique ion pathway. The discovery allowed Kirichok and Navarro to determine the function of the cation channel of sperm (CatSper) and could potentially lead to the development of new contraceptives designed to block the protein...
According to David Clapham, Castaneda Professor of Cardiovascular Research at Harvard Medical School and the principal investigator of Kirichok’s lab, understanding the function of CatSper can lead to the development of CatSper blockers to serve as contraceptives. Hydra Biosciences, a biotech company co-founded by Clapham, is already developing a drug that would specifically target CatSper...
...CatSper is a wonderful target for contraceptives because it is only in mature sperm,” Clapham wrote in an email. “And blocking its function results in 100 percent infertility…for as long as the drug was in the body?...
...displeasure with Summers. There are, furthermore, tens of thousands of students and alumni who have opinions of their own. But chiefly, Harvard’s governance is set up in a way that makes plain that professors, who are ultimately employees, do not hold the reins of power. That function is left to the Corporation, who can appoint and remove a president, and who consider all relevant inputs of opinion. So far, neither its members nor the alumni Board of Overseers have found cause to bring Summers to task.Moreover, when a governing body votes “yes?...