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...tough to figure the exact moment when the button stopped tickling America's fancy. It wasn't during the Cold War: the giant red button was all that kept us from nuclear Armageddon. And in the age of the personal computer, the button was king. Mice, monitors, keyboards - buttons became a part of the fabric of our new, digital life...
...professor of environmental policy, to issue recommendations on ensuring scientific integrity in governance. Several Harvard professors praised Obama for reopening funding and creating the framework for reforming the role of science in public policy. Manfred Baetscher, director of the Genome Modification Facility at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, uses mice as a way to test methods of applying stem cell research. He called Obama’s announcement “a decision that’s been long overdue.” Baetscher also said that with the ban lifted, stem cell research will be more cost-efficient. According...
...risk of cancer, Nghiem said. “From a skin cancer perspective, I think it is a great idea,” Clark said, though she added that she believes that more research needs to be done concerning the topical application. This research has only been conducted in mice and human keratinocytes, and any human application is still years away, according to Nghiem. “By no means are we suggesting that people change their drinking habits, but if you drink coffee, this is a another reason to feel good about it,” he said...
...combat seasonal illnesses as well as more dangerous strains like the infamous H5N1 bird flu. The antibodies attach to a part of the virus that is less mutation-prone than the section targeted by current vaccines (which must be redeveloped every year to counter the virus' changes). Tests on mice produced promising results, although clinical trials with humans won't occur for a few years...
...strategy takes a bead on a much smaller region, closer to the soles of the viral bobble head's feet, where the virus fuses to the cell it infects. These regions mutate less rapidly, and in fact, in the recent study in mice, published in the current issue of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, they did not mutate at all. "If we use this approach judiciously, we should be able to keep this pocket conserved and not develop drug resistance to it," says Dr. Wayne Marasco of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, a co-author of the paper. "The exciting part...