Word: mcgill
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Johnston will focus his efforts as president on information technology and on strengthening Harvard's relationship to the international community, he said in a recent phone interview from his office at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec...
Johnston's election was praised by other Overseers who cited his experience in academia and his knowledge of information technology as strengths he brings to the job. Johnston was the principal and vice-chancellor of McGill from 1979 to 1994 and is chair of the Advisory Council on the Information Highway to the Government of Canada...
...Dunster House resident, he played varsity hockey for two years and graduated from the College in 1963. He received a law degree from Cambridge University in England and a second law degree from Queens College in Canada. He currently teaches in the Medicine, Ethics and Law program at McGill University in Canada...
...what would make you unique as you lived your unexceptional life would be how long you got to live it. Nematodes in Hekimi's laboratory at Montreal's McGill University have been known to survive for 50 days. Nematodes outside the lab survive for barely nine. A human being this long-lived would be 420 years...
...even as Harley begins his search, other genes implicated in aging have already been flushed out of hiding. At McGill University, Hekimi's long-lived nematodes have helped expose a few of them. Hekimi created his little uberworms by crossing and recrossing individuals that lived longer naturally, slowly extending the life-spans of later generations. He then searched the animals' chromosomes until he found the mutated gene responsible, a gene he dubbed Clock-1. "The Clock-1 gene is critical in setting life-span," Hekimi says. "More important, with cloning and genetic mapping, we were able to determine just which...