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Dining halls slept. Lamont was locked. Traffic slowed, sometimes stood still. It was Thanksgiving. In quiet corners across campus, students cultured lab cells and honed hockey shots. A handful of students tried to save the cost of pricey airfares and catch up on neglected work, and got a glimpse of Harvard, moving at a snail’s pace. “Even just walking down Mass. Ave., there were hardly any cars,” said Katharine M. Chute ’11. “It was pretty quiet, and it was kind of nice...
...That's why nearly every major stem cell lab began looking for an alternative approach, the most promising of which was to simply reprogram adult cells without eggs or embryos. "When I started this work, I thought it would be a 20-year, not a few-year problem," says Thomson. But sometimes science can be surprising, and in this case, all it took to accomplish a complex biological time warp was a handful of genes that suppress cells from dividing and maturing...
...Neither Yamanaka nor Thomson believes their cells are quite ready for patients yet; for one, both methods use viruses to deliver the time-reversing genes, a practice that is acceptable in the lab but unsafe for the clinic. But the advances are finally pushing stem cell researchers to start talking about when, not if, stem-cell based therapies will be developed to treat diseases...
...latter. The Seattle computer giant has six high-end research centers - three in the US, one in the UK (abutting the Cambridge University computer science department), and two newer outposts, in Beijing and Bangalore. The strategy is partly to go where the world's great universities are: the Beijing lab is placed squarely between Beijing and Tsinghua universities, the so-called Harvard and MIT of China. But part of it is also a recognition that as more countries move from developing to developed, with the amenities and job opportunities that used to only be found elsewhere, the talent in many...
...This raises an important question: If not running, then what is “45:33” designed for? Two Crimson staff writers set out to study this question, conducting exhaustive trials and experiments in the Crimson Arts Music Investigation Laboratory (CAMIL). The following are excerpts from their lab reports. SCRABBLE The subjects competed against each other while playing the popular board game and listening to “45:33.” Ruben L. Davis: At track time 17:13, made the word “Quetzals,” earning an astounding 374 points...