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...drugs used to keep patients from rejecting transplanted organs work by suppressing the immune system -- which in turn leaves the body open to infections and even cancer. But a recently developed technique targets only the new tissue. Creating a hybrid molecule out of a human protein and an antibody, scientists tricked mouse immune systems into accepting human pancreatic cells while rejecting other foreign tissue. If it works in people, transplants will become far safer...
...Venetians bringing back war plunder to St. Mark's, the Arab rulers symbolized their victory over the Christian infidel by taking bells from church spires and converting them into mosque lamps. The most impressive single work of sculpture in the show, the 11th century Pisa griffin, is so hybrid that without a context, scholars seem unable to decide where it comes from -- or even whether it is from al-Andalus at all. It may equally well be Egyptian, North African or Iranian, though the Pisans themselves (who installed it on the facade of their cathedral) believed it was war booty...
Hispano-Islamic culture was an extraordinary hybrid, built over the vestiges of Rome, mingling Western with Middle Eastern forms. This tension and merging shows itself everywhere in the remnants of Islamic Spain. The architects of ^ the prayer hall of the Great Mosque of Cordoba, for instance, designed its sublime forest of columns and horseshoe arches as a communal space without the hierarchical orientation of a Christian basilica, as befitted Islamic ritual -- but they also based its double-arch system on the design of Roman aqueducts. "You have taken something unique and turned it into something mundane," the Emperor Charles...
Placed squarely between Widener Library and Boylston Hall is a gray sculpture that looks like some kind of turtle-lion hybrid. It's a Ch'ing Dynasty original, carved before 1821, and donated in 1936 by the Harvard Club of Shanghai...
...just two of the "arias" in this tale of an ! explorer named Alexandra (Monk), who travels to the roof of the world with a handful of intrepid companions and finds both adventure and, in the end, herself. An offbeat but sophisticated hybrid of simple chord changes, birdlike ululations, soaring vocalises and stylized dances, Atlas is the apotheosis of Monk's decades-long quest for artless simplicity...