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...contrast, the evidence in favor of one that protects against weight loss is increasingly strong. Genetic variations clearly push some people toward bigger appetites, slower metabolisms and greater weight gain than others. "There are genes in the population that predispose to obesity," says Dr. Jeffrey Friedman, a molecular geneticist at the Rockefeller University in New York. "Obviously, there's an environmental contribution, but no one questions that genes are involved...
...countries that consume almost none of the syrup, such as Mexico and Russia, obesity is still a problem. Corn growers and refiners also insist that the body treats sugar and high-fructose corn syrup identically, an argument that has recently been challenged by scientists studying sugar metabolism at the molecular level...
Many of those recommendations are drawn from a report of science options issued earlier this year by Edward E. Harlow, chair of the Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Department at Harvard Medical School...
...drive across town in five minutes flat when your son falls out of a tree. But parenting a child who has a serious genetic disease transcends that entirely, as movies like Lorenzo's Oil have shown. It turns Clark Kents into Supermen and former science-phobes into experts in molecular biology. "For a long time in the pediatric community, [the attitude was] if you have a major chromosomal abnormality, you're going to not grow well, you're going to be developmentally delayed, you're going to be mentally retarded, and there's not a darn thing...
...kids--just 400 in the U.S.--that scientists and drug companies don't bother with it. So Margus began applying his business brain to the problem of how to find a cure. He broke it down into smaller problems, assembling a list of things he needed to learn about: molecular biology, how the government funds research, how you capture the interest of top-notch scientists, what lobbying is all about. He decided his approach would be to pollinate as many excellent labs as possible, funding postdocs to work under superstars and hoping that whenever researchers discovered something relevant, they might...