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...science of prevention draws on breakthroughs in our understanding of how the body works at all levels, from gross anatomy to molecular biology. Equally important, researchers are beginning to understand how the body's systems--immune, nervous, endocrine--affect one another. Scientists have uncovered secrets about how exercise and nutrition can stave off everything from heart disease to aging. They're working on vaccines for AIDS, malaria, TB and even cancer. They're learning--most recently in the post-Sept. 11 anthrax attacks--how the judicious use of antibiotics can prevent disaster (and how abusing those medicines can cause...
...said Associate Professor of Neurobiology Charles J. Weitz ’77, the head of the research team. Although researchers have known about the genes and proteins that cause certain circadian changes, the recent discovery brings to light the actual machinery of the nerve cells, where certain molecular factors are switched on and off to control the daily rhythms...
...There was no reason to think that they would converge on the same molecular pathway, but in retrospect, it makes perfect sense. It turns out that certain aspects of the brain are simpler than we thought,” Weitz said...
...addition to running a lab at Harvard, Wiley taught both graduate and undergraduate courses for the department of molecular and cellular biology...
Christopher L. Pierce ’02, who took B.S. 56, which Wiley co-taught with Higgins Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Stephen C. Harrison last spring, said Wiley was known for conveying his enthusiasm about the subject to his students...