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...become law.” Brown encouraged attendants to take part in the Graduate Student Organization, which acts as an intermediary between departments and students. “It’s about getting representation for graduate students at the local, departmental level,” Brown said. The organismic and evolutionary biology student strongly encouraged direct participation. “Sometimes you feel like the University is an organism for making committees and nothing comes out of it,” Brown said. To counter this, he held pseudo-elections for positions on the GSC Executive Board, GSC Committees...
Twenty years ago, Ruvkun and Ambros, then fellows working in the laboratory of MIT professor H. Robert Horvitz, began studying the genes that control the development of the Caenorhabditis elegans, a 1 mm-long roundworm that biologists often use as a model organism, from newly-hatched larva to fully-grown...
A: According to our study, it appears they can last the entire lifespan of the human organism - 90 years plus.
I think that diseases, other viruses and other pathogens, can behave differently. Antibodies are made by something called memory B cells, and the memory B cells for the 1918 flu clearly live for the lifespan of the human organism, which is wonderful. It raises important questions for looking at other...
Increasingly scientists are also looking at non-animal models to provide more and more answers. That's not only going to decrease the number of animals used in certain experiments but, more important for many, speed up the [drug approval] process. It's everybody's hope [that one day we...