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...ground-breaking partly because it has implication for the treatments of other neurodegenerative diseases, Krainc said. Krainc said that the accumulation of proteins is a “common theme” among all neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. The hope, he added, is to find more specific drugs that will ablate mutant proteins. —Staff writer Gordon Y. Liao can be reached at liao@fas.harvard.edu...
...This play is less about the death penalty and more about the human experience. People shouldn’t be coming in tense and worried about having an opinion,” says Ragin.Each of the six individuals’ stories contains similar, overlapping themes—such as hope and redemption in the midst of such a trying ordeal—and their individual narratives are knit together in vignettes that follow their respective arrests, interrogation, incarceration, and eventual exoneration. The theatrical presentation of these paralleled stories questions the presence of justice in the American legal system, while also...
...cockroaches. When their way of life destabilized (post-punk, new wave, etc.), the faithful foraged underground to found hardcore—itself the ancestor of pop music’s most violent and dissonant iterations. The lineup and the skulls shaking in the crowd may change, but, beyond all hope and all disaster, punk rock survives.Its survival derives from its credibility, and its credibility, after more than 30 years, derives from its sense of iconoclasm. The underground history of punk is rife with bands that barely have any history at all; “true” punk musicians...
...vessels alone without chemotherapy and radiation can prolong life,” Jain said. Currently, clinical trials using cediranib to treat patients with both recurrent and newly-diagnosed glioblastoma are underway in Boston and internationally to further study the drug’s efficacy. In the future, the researchers hope the drug can be used in combination with traditional chemotherapy and radiation—both of which are more effective when blood flow to the tumor is normal—to enhance their effects on reducing tumor growth, said Jain. —Staff writer Alissa...
...Some aspects of China's glimmers of economic turnaround do seem as though they might offer hope to the country's trading partners. Take car sales, which rose in March for the third straight month, once again making China the largest market for automobiles in the world, ahead of the U.S. Those statistics, you'd think, would bring a smile to the faces of executives at beleaguered American carmaker GM, whose success in China in recent years has been about the only bright spot in its funereal performance...