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...Glut2, the study also found that embryos were less likely to survive if they lacked Glut2. What remains to be seen is how long the embryo must be exposed to these high glucose levels to be affected, according to Florence M. Brown, who is the co-director of the joint Joslin and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Diabetes and Pregnancy Program. “It is unclear how long the target tissues must be exposed to high glucose levels for birth defects to occur, or if transient spiking of blood glucose is enough,” wrote Brown...
...disease, in a move that backers say will jump-start the search for the genetic basis of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The Stanley Medical Research Institute awarded the gift—the largest ever given for psychiatric disease research—to the Broad Institute, a three-year-old joint venture between Harvard and MIT. “There’s no understanding of the causes of these diseases, and that needs to come from collaboration between clinical people and those in neuroscience and genetics,” said Edward Scolnick ’61, who directs the institute?...
...here just to be MobiTV's head techie. The attraction is that the job is in new media and blends technology and business operations. He has a joint technical degree and M.B.A. and worked for about six years at Wink, a company for interactive TV, but craved "something small and new." He found it at MobiTV. "We're pioneers," he says. "I can't hire someone who has done my job before or mentor me in that way because it's never been done...
...such a big fan of ‘Harold and Kumar,’ [he] would say Mom, why don’t we audition Kal Penn?” says Penn.Nair’s son’s effort to get Penn cast culminated in a joint vacation with Nair’s agent and her agent’s teenage son.“The two of them on a group family vacation physically dragged her by the hand to a computer and made her watch the ‘Harold and Kumar’ trailer...
...they had left overseas. Britain's Tony Blair announced a partial pullout from Iraq last month, and then moderate Arab neighbors in the region began to clamor for Bush to pull up before he crashed. On Wednesday, King Abdullah II of Jordan made an impassioned public appeal in a joint meeting of Congress for Washington to take the lead on Middle East peace talks...