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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Roses proposes that amyloid has an accomplice: a blood protein called ApoE. Its main function seems to be transporting cholesterol, but according to Roses, ApoE can also latch on to amyloid and cart it into brain cells. How often that happens may depend on what type of ApoE a person has, which in turn depends on the genes that direct the making of ApoE. Those genes come in at least three varieties -- dubbed E2, E3 and E4 -- and everyone has two of the genes, one from each parent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alzheimer's Clue | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

...Foundation, created in 1981, has come under fire recently for inactivity. More than half of the Foundation's Student Advisory Committee complained in The Crimson in January that the organization was not performing any function. Amid recent disagreements between Epps and Counter, it may be the first item on Epps' chopping block...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: College Ties Race Problem In Bureaucratic Red Tape | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...while Epps may have run into difficulty in managing the organizational structure stop which he presides, one of his main concerns may be that the bureaucracy continues to function like a bureaucracy...

Author: By John Tessitore, | Title: Epps Pushes for Reform | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

When Alumni Hall becomes the first-year dining area, it will return to its original function Until the 1920, the Gothic-revival hall housed students eating at Oxford-style traditional 12-seat tables...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: FAS Plans Humanities Arc | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...some cases, it's as likely to function as an incentive as a disincentive," she says. "I don't think there is a widespread resistance to the appointment of women...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: Searching for a Critical Mass | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

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