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...glad they're putting this event together but the timing isn't the best," said Patricia L. Toro '94. "Arts First takes place on the same weekend and people will not be able to do everything at once...
...closely as musicians in an orchestra. Some of these genes code for chemical solvents that enable the advancing cell to dissolve surrounding tissue. Others order up the production of adhesion molecules that, like treads under a tank, move the cell forward. Why would genes do that? The answer, notes Patricia Steeg of the National Cancer Institute, is that while the genes important to metastasis are abnormally turned on, they are not necessarily abnormal themselves. A cancer cell, in many ways, is not that different from an embryonic cell on its way to becoming a patch of skin or a bundle...
...this reasoning, even metastatic cancer may eventually be brought to heel. Squeezed into a tiny cubicle day after day at the National Cancer Institute, Patricia Steeg stares at colonies of aggressive breast-cancer cells that have shut down the protective nm23 gene. Soon she will squirt over these colonies newly identified antitumor compounds. Among them she hopes to find one, maybe more, that interferes with metastatic growth. A total of 14 of these compounds are already sitting in a freezer in her lab -- white crystals that cluster like snowflakes in the bottom of test tubes. If these fail to have...
Senior Admissions Officer Patricia B. Callaghan'89, who directs the visiting students program,said she was pleased that Rudenstine spoke to thepre-frosh...
...Admissions Office is not using any special ploys to sell Harvard to the prospective students, said Senior admission Officer Patricia B. Callaghan '89, who is in charge of coordinating the pre-frosh weekend...