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...look forward to interactions with the other scholars," said Sean M. Burgess, a fellow and a post-doctoral fellow in molecular and cellular biology at the University. "I feel that the nature of the Institute is very interdisciplinary...
...Literature and Arts A-40 439 Shakespeare, The Early Plays Computer Science 50 430 Intro. to Computer Science General Education 105 355 Lit. of Social Reflection Mathematics 21a 310 Multivariable Calculus Chemistry 5 304 Principles of Chemistry Biological Sciences 2 299 Evolutionary Biology Biological Sciences 10 291 Intro. to Molecular Biology Crimson Christian R. Goldsmith...
...team of engineers have solved a set of daunting technological issues just in the past year. Harold is, after all, a rocket scientist. For instance, he has been able to create and sustain a relatively pure vacuum in which the flywheel spins, using such exotic devices as molecular drag pumps and molecular sieves. A better vacuum means less friction, thus better spin. He also has been able to suspend the rapidly spinning flywheel in its unstable environment by using sophisticated gimbals and magnetic bearings--something very few, if any, other scientists are thought to have accomplished. "Doing the magnetic bearings...
Diabetes and hypertension are treated with medication that is essentially lifelong and, in the view that many physicians are coming to accept, this is the model that will be needed for obesity. At the same time, scientists are beginning to unravel the biological basis of overweight. Molecular biologists, for example, have identified five genes in mice that control food metabolism and that, if damaged, can lead to chubby rodents. In humans, physiologists are beginning to track the multiple hormones that conspire to keep fat people fat and thin people thin. And as Redux and fen/phen demonstrate, neurologists are beginning...
...increasingly precise psychoactive drugs. In the past few years, scientists have joined disciplines and come up with a whole new pharmacopoeia of compounds to deal with mental disorders. "Today the psychiatrists who treat patients are working hand in hand with the 'wet-brain guys'--the pharmacologists, chemists and molecular biologists," says Dr. Steven Hyman, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, Maryland. While the effects of earlier psychiatric drugs were discovered largely by trial and error, the latest compounds are aimed at exact targets in the brain. "When you wanted to develop a new drug...