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...theme of exile mirrors the author's own life. Abdulrazzak left Iraq when he was eight years old. His father, an academic and a non-Baath party member, was persecuted by the regime and fled to Egypt and Algeria before finally arriving in London. A molecular scientist at London's prestigious Imperial University, Abdulrazzak was inspired to write about his home country after voting in absentia during Iraq's 2005 elections. The expatriates were "all invested" in the election, says Abdulrazzak. "That was the last moment of hope and I try to capture that tension of feeling...
...embedding themselves within healthy tissue and of breaking away and spreading malignancies to other parts of the body. But Researchers at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have come up with an innovative way of giving surgeons the upper hand against these wily tumors. They have created a molecular "paint" that coats cancer cells so doctors can see the wayward cells that they may otherwise miss...
That's especially exciting because painting tumors could also help doctors control cancers before they spread from an organ to the lymph nodes and other tissues. Olson's molecular paint can pick up tumors as small as 200 cells, potentially helping doctors identify, for instance, the micrometastases that can make breast cancer so dangerous. Current techniques like magnetic resonance imaging start detecting tumors at 1 million cells. "It's simply a way to extend what we can see," says Olson, making all our tools against cancer more powerful...
...study, which appears in the most recent issue of Molecular Medicine, Al-Abed analyzed semen samples from 68 infertile and 28 fertile males who had abstained from sex for a period of three to five days. All of the participants, the research revealed, exhibited what Al-Abed calls the Goldilocks effect: those who had abnormally high or low levels of MIF were infertile. In the ones whose levels were high, sperm were produced but quickly died; in the ones whose levels were low, sperm survived but were often malformed. Only the men whose MIF concentrations were just right produced healthy...
...love the chemistry that can be created onstage between the actors and the audience. It's molecular even, the energies that can go back and forth. I started in theater, and when I first went into movies, I felt that my energy was going to blow out the camera...