Word: labs
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...typewriter is being analyzed by the FBI in Washington, but "it looks like the manifesto and the letters from the Unabomber were typed on [it]," according to one official, who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity. "We'll know for sure after the detailed lab analysis...
...Being regulated like industry is too burdensome. The amount of chemicals we deal with in the lab is different than in industry," says James H. Rowe III '73, vice president for government, community and public affairs. "General understanding in the academic setting is significantly higher. This difference should be taken into account...
...strategy is to make use of the large bank of prostate tissue gathered by Washington University's Dr. Catalona and Dr. Paul Lange of the University of Washington, both members of the consortium. Researchers in Hood's lab plan to test every one of the consortium's variety of 600 tumor cells along with normal prostate cells collected at every stage of human development. Then they will use genetic-engineering techniques to produce markers that can identify tumors that are dangerous and those that are not. The same approach, he says, may eventually be used to identify many other kinds...
Consider, says Chalmers, the robot named Cog, being developed at M.I.T.'s artificial-intelligence lab with input from Dennett (see following story). Cog will someday have "skin"--a synthetic membrane sensitive to contact. Upon touching an object, the skin will send a data packet to the "brain." The brain may then instruct the robot to recoil from the object, depending on whether the object could damage the robot. When human beings recoil from things, they too are under the influence of data packets. If you touch something that's dangerously hot, the appropriate electrical impulses go from hand to brain...
...amounts of many of these chemicals. They know that once the pollutants get inside the body, they can bind with receptors that normally recognize estrogen and other natural hormones. They know that these hormones are crucial to the development of a normal reproductive system. And they know that--in lab tests on animals, at least--vanishingly small amounts of industrial chemicals, delivered at just the crucial stage of fetal development, can "feminize" a male embryo, producing smaller testicles, low sperm output and a miniaturized or missing penis...