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Microsoft designed Vista with high-resolution graphics and lots of animations, conveying a dynamic, in-motion feel. Every window has a translucent border. Alongside the main screen runs the Sidebar, a panel of little helper applications called gadgets, among them a news reader, a calculator and a currency converter. A key visual highlight is the window flipper: with a click, your open windows form a single-file line and parade past for your review...
...especially fine. He tamps down his familiar eccentricities, and lends McLoughlin a laser stare of dread as he lies in his metal cage he thinks has become his coffin. After he's rescued and brought out on a stretcher, McLoughlin's gesture of touching the hand of each helper and saying "Thank you" has a heart-touching simplicity and nobility...
...asthma, paving the way for better treatment and possibly a cure for the respiratory disease suffered by 20 million Americans.Harvard professors Dale T. Umetsu and Omid Akbari, researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston, found that the immune response that triggers asthma symptoms is caused not by Helper T (Th2) cells as was previously thought but by Natural Killer T (NKT) cells in the lungs.“It’s very new. No one else has seen this before,” Umetsu says. “The biology of these cells is very different from...
...were too far apart for them to succeed on their own, suggesting that they recognized when they needed assistance. Furthermore, when the exercise was repeated a number of times and the chimps were given a choice between multiple partners, they tended to heed the historical record and chose the helper who had proved a better rope-puller in the past...
...study published by Harvard Medical School researchers last week may bring doctors one step closer to finding a cure for asthma. Until now, the scientific community had thought that one form of immune cells, “helper T cells,” were behind the respiratory ailment. But a new study, designed by Havard immunologist Dale T. Umetsu and executed by Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Omid Akbari along with Stanford researcher John Faul, has implicated a different type of immune cell, “natural killer T” (NKT) cells. The discovery has prompted talk...