Word: labs
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...first, I didn’t plan on spending my summer with flies, or in any laboratory for that matter. When I was younger, I used to dream of being a research scientist. But several years ago, I spent a summer working in a lab where I spent the whole day crushing mouse food and then running mice in mazes before they were killed for further study. Besides building nice forearms from my constant grinding with mortar and pestle, the summer taught me a lot: mice do not make wonderful conversationalists, and whatever else you do as a scientist...
...facts, of course, don?t bear out the idea of equal pay for equal work. According to data provided by the AFL-CIO Working Women?s Department, jobs across the socioeconomic board are subject to male-female disparities: The average female lawyer, architect, psychologist, waiter and lab technician all generally makes less than her male colleagues. Even allowing for factors like time worked and previous jobs held, the study shows that between 11 and 40 percent of male/female wage differences remain unexplained...
...Condit did comply with other requests. Shortly before dawn on Wednesday, he allowed police to search his apartment for more than three hours. Condit and Lowell were present as officers took folders and bags into an unmarked police vehicle; several items were sent to the FBI crime lab so that flecks of undetermined substances could be analyzed. Police with cadaver dogs also began searching nearby abandoned houses...
...frightfully difficult issue and it's not at all aided by researchers who are creating human embryos in the lab solely for the purpose of harvesting their stem cells. This has a Dr. Frankenstein aspect that threatens much of the hard-won good will scientists may have gleaned from supporters who remain a bit squeamish about using discarded embryos from infertility treatments...
...Adult stem cells taken from the blood or organs of healthy adults have recently demonstrated an unexpected adaptability in lab experiments. But these cells are marginally helpful to scientists, and do not show the same promise as those culled from embryos. Adult cells are fairly set in their ways, and don?t seem to grow or replicate themselves as quickly as their younger counterparts...