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...this is to confuse the bacteria, hitting them with not just one natural toxin but two. At Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Mass., scientists are developing a new class of antibiotics that targets a pair of enzymes the microbes depend on to copy their genes and reproduce. Adapting in two directions at once slows down the bacteria enough to give the drug time to work. "Mathematically, it becomes much harder for the bacteria to develop resistance to different targets at the same time," says Dr. John Alam, the company's chief medical officer...
...they weren’t. Relations between Mass. Hall and University Hall remained tense throughout the tenures of Summers and historian William C. Kirby, whom Summers had handpicked to forward his agenda in FAS. The strained relationship tore when Summers’ intention to fire Kirby became public, eventually leading to the departure of both leaders...
...relationships between University Hall and Mass. Hall are better than I’ve seen them in a long time,” she said...
...participated voted in favor of the Council’s proposal. The UC plan drew heavily upon that of the Verba report, but it did not endorse a J-term—instead citing language from the earlier report providing for an alternate configuration.Two months before he would leave Mass. Hall, Bok threw his hat into the ring. He said on Friday that he waited until late in his tenure as interim president to discuss calendar reform because “several precipitating events occurred late in the year,” including the curricular review...
...professor Paul Farmer, the founder of international non-profit Partners in Health. Lee appreciated the gesture—but couldn’t quite connect the e-mail address to a face.That summer, she volunteered at an orphanage in China and Huang ended up on her update mass-e-mail list. Upon returning to Harvard, she e-mailed the group to set up a lunch to discuss their summers. “I think only two or three people responded,” Lee says. Huang was one of them. After a long lunch in Huang?...