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...attempt is far more sophisticated than anything that precedes it. It aligns policy makers and a major car company with an outfit prepared to build hundreds of thousands of electric charging stations across the country. In an interview with TIME, Israeli President Shimon Peres called the project, "an experimental lab, a pilot project, before it's applied to other, bigger industrialized nations...
...heart is a beautiful organ, and it's not one that I thought I'd ever be able to build in a dish.' DORIS A. TAYLOR, head of a University of Minnesota research team, on its ability to create a beating rat heart in the lab...
...Hospital and then turned full-time to the research for which he is best known. Folkman was appointed a professor of pediatrics and also a professor of cell biology at the Medical School. His students recall his infectious curiosity. “I remember being a student in a lab with him, looking at the data from an experiment and thinking it was a total failure. And he’d look at the same data and say ‘I wonder why ‘x’? Why did it turn out that...
...Michigan, Willard Mitt Romney was the Frankenstein monster of the 2008 Republican sweepstakes. The former Massachusetts governor at times seemed less like a real person than a strange, inauthentic collection of market research, body parts and DNA that had been borrowed from past G.O.P. campaigns and assembled in a lab by the party's mad scientists. Romney had the overpowering optimism of Ronald Reagan, the family values of Dan Quayle, the hair and handsome looks of Jack Kemp and the manners of George H.W. Bush. On paper, each piece of the Romney contraption was designed to appeal to a different...
...creativity were practically boundless. "He would work 21 hours a day," says Brem. "He was chairman of pediatric surgery at Children's Hospital, so he would do surgery and see patients during day, then at night he would have dinner from six to eight, then work in the lab from eight to two a.m." That dedication led Folkman to change the way cancer is treated today. His hunch, dating to his early days in the lab in the 1960s, that cancer tumors rely on the formation of new blood vessels for nourishment and growth, has since...