Word: labs
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Dean R. Gallant, Y2K coordinator for laboratories and research centers, says some researchers have expressed concern over the possibility of corrupted equipment or databases, as well as jeopardized lab subjects...
...adds that it is still a bit early in the planning to have all the details ironed out. Researchers will be addressing site-specific lab contingencies more closely over the summer...
While Maxwell Dworkin, the new home for the computer sciences at Harvard, will be finished and Faculty and staff moved in by mid-August, construction will continue on the Naito Chemistry lab...
...born Qian Xuesen goes home. He had fled the Japanese occupation of China and landed at M.I.T., then earned a Ph.D. at Caltech, where he joined a rocket-research group to pioneer supersonic aerodynamics and thin-shell-stability theory for ballistic missiles. At the university's prestigious Jet Propulsion Lab, he helped design Private A, the first U.S. solid-fuel missile that worked. Then he was invited into the U.S. Army as a colonel to fashion the Titan ICBM, workhorse of the cold war silo-missile force...
...these lab mice were not bred for the benefit of cats that have trouble seeing in the dark. They do glow, however, thanks to a gene that usually codes for green fluorescence in jellyfish but was knit into the animals' usual complement of mousy DNA by scientists at the University of Hawaii. The experiment was reported in Science and demonstrates an improved method of gene transfer--called Honolulu transgenesis--that uses sperm as a vehicle to move DNA from one species to another...