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...jokes about the New Pathway afternoon naps.”Tosteson also recognized the need to embrace cutting-edge and outward-looking research by reconfiguring the Medical School’s academic departments. His tenure saw the creation of the Departments of Cell Biology, Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Health Care Policy, and Social Medicine (renamed the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine). He also made plans to delve into functional genomics, even as some questioned the importance of the field.Though Tosteson implemented sweeping reforms, including interdepartmental initiatives that required a centralization of power, colleagues praised his willingness...
Among the many mysteries that befuddle autism researchers: why the disorder affects boys four times more often than girls. But in new findings reported online today by the journal Molecular Psychiatry, researchers say they have found a genetic clue that may help explain the disparity...
...This is a new molecular tool that will allow clinicians to select those patients who do not require chemotherapy at all," says Dr. David Kerr, a University of Oxford professor of cancer medicine, who led the study and will present its results at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncologists (ASCO) in Orlando at the end of May. "It will empower some patients to be cured with surgery alone...
...changed a bit over the centuries, but influence remains a mysterious force and a difficult one to measure. That's part of the reason the TIME 100 list of the most influential people in the world is so diverse and eclectic. How do you gauge the influence of a molecular biologist vs. that of a politician, weigh the relative impact of a tennis player and a fashion designer or an architect and a minister? You can't, of course, and we don't try. But we look for people whose ideas, discoveries, talent and, yes, power shape and transform...
Charles Gibson The anchor of ABC's World News with Charles Gibson serves on Princeton's board of trustees Shirley Tilghman is the first female president of Princeton University. In addition to providing outstanding leadership of that institution, she is an accomplished molecular biologist, championing research and promoting women in science and engineering...