Word: lifespan
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...CGIS, made up of the Knafel Building and the still-unnamed South Building, has been beset by difficulties throughout its short lifespan. Initially, disputes erupted between the City of Cambridge and the University over the planned location of the complex, and its effect on the areas around it. Original designs for a tunnel connecting the two buildings under the street were abandoned after they met with fierce local opposition that drove the price tag up by $10 million—a sum the College deemed unreasonable...
...Cold Turkey’ campaign last year, and when you start something new you usually have to build it up,” Emig said. The Go Cold Turkey campaign was the predecessor of the Campus Sustainability Pledge, which debuted this fall. During its three-year lifespan, Go Cold Turkey advocated prudent energy use by students and faculty during the Thanksgiving holiday. The new pledge initiative, which asks students and faculty to submit a checklist of the ways in which they promise to conserve energy, is part of the larger “emPower Harvard” campaign. The checklist...
...prenatal clinics, doctors and genetic counselors try to provide a full picture of the rewards and risks of raising a child with this disorder. They refer interested patients to support groups. About half of babies born with Down have heart defects, though thanks to improved treatment, their average expected lifespan has doubled, from 25 in 1983 to 56 today. A higher risk of leukemia, infectious disease and dementia are also in the picture...
...researchers—who included Dudley Lamming, Oliver Medvedik, and Magda Latorre-Esteves, in addition to Sinclair—reveals that Sir2 does not serve this function alone. Rather, a group of related genes—the Sir2 family—plays a major role in regulating lifespan. Sinclair said that one of the genes in the family appears to control functions such as fat metabolism and cell survival, while another controls body temperature and the efficiency with which an organism uses energy, and yet others protect against diabetes...
According to Sinclair, the Sir2 genes are effective in extending lifespan because they control the body’s own defenses against disease—defenses which, he argued, modern medicine has not utilized to their full potentials...