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...women. Although the Amish are a genetically homogeneous group, the study of volunteers' genotypes still showed a genetic diversity that reflected the makeup of the general Caucasian population: Specifically, they exhibited a range of variations on the FTO gene, which previous studies have associated with obesity and high body mass index, or BMI. Experts say about half of all people of European descent possess at least one "heavy" variant of the FTO gene. Within the Amish study group, some volunteers had two copies of a fattening variant; these people were 67% more likely to be obese and were on average...
...Nobel laureate who spent decades as a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and whose tissue-culture research paved the way to the development of vaccines for polio and other viral diseases such as chicken pox and measles, died on Aug. 23 at his home in Needham, Mass...
...million donation from the Broads will be announced Thursday at a press conference that will feature Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick '78, as well as both Harvard President Drew G. Faust and MIT President Susan Hockfield...
...funds will be invested with the goal of growing the $400 million into a $1 billion endowment, which may require more gifts from other donors, Eli Broad said at a press conference following a series of speeches that included Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick '78, University President Drew G. Faust, and MIT President Susan Hockfield. Plans for the management of the funds have not yet been finalized...
...schools have taken steps to reduce debt among their neediest students. Among them: Caltech, which this year began replacing loans with grants for American students with household incomes below $60,000, and College of the Holy Cross, which offers free tuition to students from its surrounding community in Worcester, Mass., if their family makes less than $50,000. And many public and private universities now offer similar packages to state residents who are at or below the federal poverty level of $21,000 a year for a family of four. "Students' tuition, fees, food, books and a place to live...