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...supervillain, single-mindedly devoted to taking over the world; a recluse, never appearing in public without his trademark metal mask; a mad genius, never sleeping so that he can work in his lab all day and night: these are the images maintained by MF Doom. While every aspect of the comic book persona may not be true to life, the description of his work ethic is: MM..Food? is his ninth (ninth!) LP in the last two years, all released under various aliases. Even more impressive than the quantity has been the quality, as all of these have been anywhere...
...Harren Jhoti, too, made a discovery that had eluded better-funded corporate researchers. In October 2002, Jhoti and his colleagues at Astex discovered in their Cambridge lab a chemical that bound to a protein called beta-secretase (Bace), which researchers had identified as a possible cause of Alzheimer's disease. The chemical was just a fragment of what could eventually become an Alzheimer's-conquering drug. But it represented a big step in the quest for a Bace-targeting substance, which drug giant AstraZeneca had been seeking for years; the firm enlisted Astex's help. "AstraZeneca worked...
...test her theory in a lab dish, she needed to get around the problem that human cells die outside the body. She created a patent-pending process to keep them alive, and her efforts paid off. Mather hopes that the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. will soon approve one of her drugs for human testing. The drug, called raag 12, is a protein that in the dish destroys another protein found in 90% of all gastrointestinal cancers and in 50% of of all breast, lung and prostate cancers. It works by crippling the cancer cell's surface...
...Economists have become increasingly interested in non-market interactions,” said Mobius. “The web seemed a natural extension of this research. Instead of doing this at the lab, why not have the subjects do it at home...
...really telling you how to dress—by ranking Brown first.” But ‘real life’ intervenes, as both Zhu and Encisco have found that environmental hazards need to be taken into wardrobe consideration, be it in the lab or out in the harsh Cambridge winter elements. One fashion truth that Zhu, Encisco, WWD, and FM can all agree upon: Cambridge’s puritanical cobblestones would be hell for any stiletto heeled Hester Prynne in search of another (scarlet...