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...square rides on a background only very slightly less black. Rothko wasn't fiddling with an art-historical endgame here, trying to see how flat and stark he could make his pictures. The Black-Form paintings, as they are known, are emblems for existence itself, statements at a near-molecular level of detail about the minimal order necessary to distinguish life from the disorder of death. Indeed, look at them long enough and they make you think of a doorway into extinction. Do they prefigure Rothko's suicide in 1970? We don't know. What we do know is that...
...discarded gum was sold on eBay for over $400. Britney Spears’ half-eaten egg salad sandwich and Kevin Federline’s corndog went for $520. So what about Biel’s wine glass? JT’s napkin? As Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Roberto Kolter attests, the saliva on the glass and whatever may linger in the napkin can prove valuable in a lab. “Even if a few thousand or a few hundred thousand molecules remain, you can still break it down and get a DNA sequence...
Their business plan grew out of the HBS class “Inventing Breakthroughs and Commercializing Science”, taught by Vicki L. Sato, professor of businesses and the practice of molecular and cellular biology, who also served as the team’s mentor...
Wilson, who works at Harvard Medical School, and Susan E. Mango—who was recently appointed professor of molecular and cellular biology in FAS, effective next July—were two of this year’s 25 awardees...
...brain, sending the message that the body has taken in its fill of calories. But the longer this system has been overwhelmed with too much sugar and too many calories as occurs in diabetes, experts suspect, the more difficult it is to normalize the body's metabolic thresholds and molecular messages...