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...Martin chaired a committee on mapping the human brain at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He also collaborated in discovering the genetic marker for Huntington's disease, making early diagnosis possible...
...Both students requested in the past that their names be removed; Sakis actually threatened to sue for libel if his wasn't. Apparently, the Peninsula people are sensitive enough to external stimuli to heed this kind of threat because Sakis's name is blacked out in magic marker in all distributed copies of the last Peninsula. Folch's name still appears, however, as does that of Christopher J. Russo '97 who said he has not been involved with the publication for more than two years and was "surprised" to see his name on the masthead...
Doherty and Zinkernagel showed that the white blood cells of the immune system look for changes in a key marker called the self protein, which identifies cells as belonging to one's own body. Any alterations in this protein--such as those that occur when a cell is invaded by a virus--tag the cell for destruction. Doherty and Zinkernagel's research, which won this year's Physiology or Medicine Nobel, could lead to new kinds of vaccines against cancer, multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune disorders...
...short for dehydroepiandrosterone) is a hormone produced by the adrenal glands, tiny sacs that sit atop the kidneys. The body converts it into testosterone and estrogen in both men and women (albeit in different amounts). What makes DHEA so intriguing is that it seems to act like a biochemical marker for aging. People churn out copious quantities until the age of 30, when the levels in the blood start to decline. By the time they are 80, men and women have less than 5% of the DHEA they had at their physical and sexual peak...
...believed GETTING STONED to be a beneficial experience, teaching tolerance, since it rendered all co-users equally attractive and all rock bands equally talented. I may also have believed that GETTING STONED engendered profound INSIGHTS, which I may have, at least once, attempted to record with a Day-Glo marker on the back of an empty doughnut box (in Molinari's world, this would be known as a "LAB REPORT...