Word: labs
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With enthusiasm in her British-accented voice and a youthful twinkle in her eyes, Selby speaks passionately about the institute's newly commissioned ship (all 282 feet) and the research voyages it would take around the world--to be conducted on 4,000 square feet of lab space...
Construction is scheduled to begin June 6, the day after Commencement, and should finish by the beginning of the next term, leaving the fall semester for installation. If all goes according to plan, students will be able to use the lab during the spring of 1998, though the entire project will take two to three years to complete...
...move of the language lab is part of a larger renovation scheduled for Boylston in connection with the renovations of the Barker Center for the Humanities. After the lab moves, five humanities departments will be housed in Boylston
...aboard the Russian space station Mir, Linenger was relaxing one evening when an alarm rang in the astronomy module. Rushing to the little lab, he found a cosmonaut swatting at a blaze erupting from an air canister. Linenger and his crewmates hurried to help, but the feeble fire extinguishers they carried were no match for the oxygen-fed flames. Ordinarily if things got out of hand, the crew could evacuate in a Soyuz capsule docked outside. But this time the fire blocked their path. Fortunately, the flames exhausted themselves before it became necessary to abandon ship, and the crisis passed...
...colleagues at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine didn't set out to create muscle-bound lab specimens. As reported in last week's Nature, they wanted to find out how a particular protein, a growth factor called myostatin, regulates the development of tissue. So they produced a strain of mice in which the gene that codes for myostatin had been deleted, or "knocked out." The resulting mutant animals grew up normal in every way--except for their extraordinarily well-developed musculature...