Word: labs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think that's cool." If any employees do gripe, Hinman--who recycles old business cards by crossing out his former employer's name and scribbling MongoMusic.com on them--can remind them that for six weeks in 1995 he lived in a tent on the roof of a Stanford physics lab. And despite the sweatshop conditions, Hinman is a benign manager. "When 5 o'clock on Friday rolls around, I expect them to be out the door," he says, surveying his callow charges. "I know that at 5 p.m., you can find me in my backyard playing beer pong...
Kunkel, chief of the Division of Genetics at Children's Hospital, has been studying muscular dystrophy for 18 years. In 1986, his lab cloned the gene for the protein dystrophin, which, when defective, causes Duchenne's muscular dystrophy...
Since then his lab has been investigating how dystrophin functions in both normal and diseased muscle cells. The research has helped scientists develop strategies to replace diseased cells with healthy ones...
...other scientists in Folkman's lab, Oliver Kisker and Steven Pirie-Shepherd, later confirmed O'Reilly's finding when they saw the same protein being produced by human pancreatic cancer cells...
Folkman's lab has previously reported successful experiments using the anti-angiogenic proteins endostatin and angiostatin on tumors in mice. In those experiments, the substances were shown to cause tumors in mice to regress to microscopic size...