Word: labs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...expedite the "learning period," researchersfrom Folkman's lab and NCI will be workingtogether to solve the problems...
...such applications are years away at best. At this point, it is not clear whether the isolated stem cells can produce literally any tissue in the body or can make only the few types already seen in the lab. And if it is the latter, why? If the experiment had been done in mice, the next step would have been to test the stem cells' versatility by trying to grow an entire mouse. Such an experiment would clearly have been unethical with human cells...
...traditional source of funding is unavailable. In order to inoculate themselves against charges of violating a federal directive, the Johns Hopkins and Wisconsin scientists had to declare that no federal funds were used in their work. The Wisconsin group went so far as to set up a separate lab so federally funded equipment would not be "contaminated...
...1990s. Underground BBSes (bulletin board systems), which were most times run by people out of their homes, contained illegal software to download. The precious phone numbers of these BBSes were passed around among friends in a sort of Underground Railroad of computer users. His high school computer lab was a close-knit community where more experienced users shared their knowledge with younger users eager to soak up their expertise. Information was not withheld for selfish reasons, but disseminated among everybody in order to spread computer intelligence. His prose makes a family concept continually come to mind throughout the middle...
...firm has stepped up to the plate with a possible use for barnyard-animal DNA. But Alexion Pharmaceuticals' research, backed up by Yale's School of Medicine, is just a little more credible -- if no less fantastic. Cells from genetically altered pigs have helped heal spinal cord injuries in lab rats, and may do the same for humans -- offering a tiny ray of hope to millions of paralyzed people around the world...