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Even when elevators are working, entrapment remains a risk. Joe A. Ford ’06 took a Spanish class last year that required him to go to Lamont’s language lab regularly. The elevator that goes to the sixth floor was almost too small to fit his wheelchair; he could edge himself in, but once there, he couldn’t reach the buttons...
...Biewener points out, the task of luring a researcher away from his home lab, particularly to a job with such heavy administrative duties, is more complex than the average hire...
...therapeutic cloning, which destroys embryos consisting of no more than a few cells, is a fundamentally different process from abortion. Therapeutic cloning happens in the lab, not in the womb. Whereas opponents of stem cell research see life in a few cells smeared in a petri dish, we see the millions of human lives which will be saved through stem cell treatments—even if these treatments only live up to the most conservative hopes of researchers...
...released as we age could be a major cause of Alzheimer's. The new study, conducted by researchers at three centers in Italy, as well as New York Medical College, found that curcumin triggers production of a protein called HO-1 that protects against free radicals--at least in lab rats. According to New York Medical College's Nader Abraham, curcumin, which is also found in turnips, brussels sprouts and cauliflower, could help protect human brains as well...
...tracking global content filtering, a lot of which is undertaken in secret, and a lot of which is clandestine,” said Ronald J. Deibert, an associate professor with The Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. “We are trying to get a sense of what kind of checks are being put on content by governments around the world...