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Rathore used a new technique, called RNA interference, to construct a genetic sequence that blocked the gossypol-producing enzyme in the seeds only. After succeeding in the lab, he began a test in a greenhouse to see if the genetically modified cotton plant would survive and pass on its new trait. Rathore's just-compiled data show that the modified cotton appears to be normal in every way other than the fact that it has instantly edible seeds. "What works in the greenhouse should hold true in the fields," he says...
Duncan and his siblings spent each weekday afternoon helping out at their mother's center on the corner of 46th and Greenwood. After the tutoring, everyone would shoot some hoops. Those were his evenings. During the day, Duncan attended the prestigious University of Chicago Lab School, a rigorous K-12 program that led him to Harvard. There he graduated magna cum laude while maintaining his obsession with basketball, co-captaining the team his senior year. After college and a failed tryout with the Boston Celtics, Duncan flew to Australia to play in that nation's professional basketball league. He stayed...
...returned to Chicago to run a nonprofit for investment banker and Obama backer John W. Rogers Jr.--his mentor since their years together at the Lab School, where Duncan says he followed Rogers around "like a puppy dog." Duncan proceeded to co-found a small school with his sister. He then ran the magnet program for the Chicago board of education and was the system's deputy chief of staff, before being tapped to serve as its head. His 7˝ years as superintendent produced mixed results. While he oversaw modest gains in student achievement, Duncan's tenure was most notable...
...body is Le’s, according to the Yale Daily News. The case has now been labeled a homicide investigation. Just yesterday, investigators retrieved bloody clothes in the ceiling of the research facility a couple blocks from the Sterling Hall of Medicine, where Le’s lab is located. Officials have yet to establish a link between the find and Le’s disappearance, as she was wearing different clothes that morning. According to the Yale Daily News, an unnamed source within the University’s police department said officials are currently analyzing the dried blood...
...into a high-powered microscope, so we can view the whole brain and see what the individual neurons are doing. We can see not only how the neurons are shaped, but how they function.” According to Andre G. V. Valente, who has worked in the Engert lab for five years, the recently minted professor is known for his supportive, accessible and extraordinary personality. Valente added that Engert runs a “help desk” to answer students’ questions and assist them with programming. “I think it’s very...