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...patients who have undergone the therapy number only in the hundreds, but about a third of them have been 21 or younger, a fact that is not only helping doctors spare the very patients in whom loss of mobility hits the hardest but also revealing much about how the nervous system works...
...step closer to discovering the cause of the fatal neurodegenerative Lou Gehrig’s disease through a novel use of embryonic stem cells from mice. Supporters of embryonic stem cell research have long pointed to the potential to use these cells to directly treat diseases of the nervous system. But the Harvard and Columbia teams assert that stem cells have a broader application in providing critical information for understanding many other human diseases. The researchers have harnessed stem cells from mice embryos, which can develop into any kind of tissue, to create mutant nerve cells for studying the early...
...hide them in swaths of fabric normally big enough to hide small elephants. These are all important facts. As Harvard students, however, we are intimately familiar with extremes. I can’t even count the times I’ve seen a perfectly happy individual have a nervous breakdown caused by getting a B+ in a core. We reside in a group of mentally mercurial, sensitive fools. Which is why I feel I feel that Harvard is especially well suited for adopting the wide-leg pants trend with ease: because if we can’t embrace the extremes...
...don’t imagine that expecting mothers are so ill-treated. Let’s say some overly-cautious, very nervous, pregnant lady comes into the doctor wondering and terrified at being able to see her babies elbow pass across the inside of her stomach. But that does not mean it’s a good idea to announce, “It could be swollen glands, and that points to herpes, so, expect a stillbirth...
...asked 14 people to take my pain and the hell that doctors and psychologists and friends have begged me not to look at. I watched as the days went on and I began to see people who had not slept, people with dark circles and pallor, people with nervous twitching...