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...Another disease-fighting Pioneer is Jennie Mather of Raven Biotechnologies in South San Francisco. Like Jhoti, Mather is out to fight cancer, but her approach is radically different. She postulated that what really counts in a target protein - that is, a protein that causes a disease and that a drug would aim to disable - is the protein's surface. Since a body's natural antibodies never enter a diseased cell but do their work entirely on the cell's exterior, she reasoned, drugs should work the same way. Such thinking was heresy to her former employer Genentech, which analyzes...
...test her theory in a lab dish, she needed to get around the problem that human cells die outside the body. She created a patent-pending process to keep them alive, and her efforts paid off. Mather hopes that the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. will soon approve one of her drugs for human testing. The drug, called raag 12, is a protein that in the dish destroys another protein found in 90% of all gastrointestinal cancers and in 50% of of all breast, lung and prostate cancers. It works by crippling the cancer cell's surface...
...Force dangerously implies that rural bumpkins could not be dissuaded from their prejudice, and gives them up for lost. Harvard students were wont to take this position after the election in every conceivable forum, such as when Former Harvard Professor Brian C.W. Palmer ’86 held a Mather roundtable which was characterized by self-reinforcing group think, leading discussion toward condescending oversimplifications about people of faith...
Kate A. Tiskus ’06, a Crimson editor and history concentrator in Mather House, is editor-in-chief of the Harvard Salient...
...combined inspections of Dunster and Mather dining halls, which share a kitchen, found 13 total violations, the highest number in the College and up from six violations last April. Though problems over the past two years have included rust in the ice machine, scum buildup and keeping raw meat too close to food that’s ready to be served, this fall’s were relatively minor. They included missing labels on containers, a broken salad bar light and no thermometer in the refrigerator...