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...Aguilera ’08-’09, a SLAM member, said that SLAM is concerned that the investigation leading to the FLA’s recommendations were flawed. In response, SLAM brought Salma Mirza, a member of the national staff of the United Students Against Sweatshops, and Mirna Chavarría Lopez, a 37-year-old former worker in Russell’s Honduran factory, to campus in order to talk to administrators. “We’re very concerned that Harvard said they were going to wait for the FLA recommendations,” Mirza...
...this accidental discovery of the genes’ importance that led scientists to explore the previously unknown universe of what is known as micro-RNA (miRNA...
...recognition of his work on miRNA, Ruvkun won this year’s Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research—a prize he shares with his fellow researchers, Victor R. Ambros, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, and David Baulcombe, who teaches at the University of Cambridge...
Previously, Ruvkun added, the smallest RNA known to be of importance in cells consisted of 75 nucleotide building blocks. The miRNA they worked with was composed of 22 nucleotides...
...Santa Barbara last week, defenders of bilingualism considered their next move. A lawsuit against the school board? A general strike? A boycott of Anglo businesses? Mirna Nunez, a principal organizer of the protest, vowed, "We're going to fight this to the end!" Meanwhile, though, the boycott of the schools dissolved, and the kids made their way back to class...