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...results were impressive. Restylane outperformed a collagen-based substance by a 6-to-1 ratio. Unlike collagen, which lasts only about three months for some patients, Restylane can last six months or longer, doctors say. And because it's a non-animal-based gel created in the lab (bovine collagen is made from cow tissue), it doesn't cause allergic reactions, as collagen does in a few patients. That means no waiting six weeks for allergy-test results before you can try it. "It will be a boon for the patient who says, 'I have a wedding in two weeks...
...won’t list all the little things I will miss the least about Harvard—sleeping through lecture, failing to sleep through section, the dryness of the campus before you turn twenty-one (ah, blessed day), the ruined faces of 5 a.m. computer lab-frequenters, the Lampoon (still not funny, people), the glum, interminable, yet snowless winters, the price of books at the Coop, the price of everything in the Square, the existence of Abercrombie and Fitch, the word ‘discourse’ and yes, even now, Cornel West...
...Starks and other recipients, the Hoopes was a final validation of the thousands of long hours they spent in the lab and library at the expense of sleep and time away from their friends...
...Vanessa Henke ’02, a Biochemisty concentrator, long hours in the lab led to a number of unexpected discoveries about ChaK2, the protein on which she wrote her thesis...
That's what Talwar and his group were trying to understand. "We wanted to determine how well rats understand incoming signals," he explains. "When we stimulated a region of the whiskers, they 'felt' a touch." Someday, says Mandayam Srinivasan, director of the M.I.T. Touch Lab, who helped show two years ago that monkeys could control robots by thought alone, "you could build a neural chip for paralyzed people, similar to a cochlear implant for deaf people, that uses brain signals to control prostheses...