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Corralling clumps of misshapen protein could open the way not just to diagnosis but also to treatment. In August, Amorfix partnered with Biogen Idec of Cambridge, Mass., to pursue treatment for ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, with the goal of blocking the protein from misfolding in the first place. "It's just the most awful disease, and the most challenging," says Cashman, who runs an ALS clinic in Vancouver, where he is research chairman of neurology at the University of British Columbia's department of medicine. "It may sound trite, but I want to make a difference, and this...
...batteries are not only environmentally friendly but they're also cheap. Happonen says he will be able to sell his SoftBatterys for about a penny each once he hits mass production. Today's button batteries sell in bulk for about 20˘ each. Because the 0.4-mm-thin SoftBattery is made from paper, Enfucell can make sheets of the stuff and size them to specific applications. An average size would be about...
...Spanish National Court ended the trial of those allegedly responsible for the 2004 Madrid train bombings. The Court’s controversial and much-publicized verdict—it convicted only three of the 29 defendants of mass murder—brought the 2004 bombings and Spain’s subsequent withdrawal of its approximately 1,300 troops from Iraq to the forefront of many Spaniards’ minds. A week later, U.S. newspapers pointed out that 2007 has been the U.S.’s deadliest year in Iraq. Conversation here in Granada, particularly when walking past newspaper stands...
...source of the resonance. It comes from a ball-carrying, run-blocking fullback.Until this year, though, the exploits of Noah Van Niel, the multi-talented starter for the Harvard football team, had gone largely unnoticed.A Boston Globe story last month changed all that, as the native of Newton, Mass. became somewhat of a celebrity for his dual abilities as a football player and an opera singer. Van Niel has even appeared on National Public Radio and CBS’ “The Early Show” in recent weeks, telling his unique story of practicing opera and playing football...
...half a century ago, in 1955, the British governor of Kenya, speaking during the infamous Mau Mau uprising, pleaded with all concerned to appreciate the enlightened project that was his Empire’s burden: “The task we have set ourselves is to civilize a great mass of human beings who are in a very primitive moral and social state.” About a decade earlier, his predecessor Philip Mitchell had outlined this duty in starker terms still: “The African has the choice of remaining a savage or of adopting our civilization, culture...