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...exquisitely” small space because the laser is focused through an objective lens, according to fellow collaborator Donald Ingber, professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Children’s Hospital. Ingber said that the laser then creates plasma which vaporizes everything in that small space...
...ability of the laser beam to create plasma within the cell, vaporizing matter in the process, makes it invaluable in the field of mechanobiology—which is primarily concerned with the importance of mechanics and structure in the regulation of cell form and function, as well as tissue development, Ingber said...
...rear-projection sets. A quick price check proves the point: a 56-in. Digital Light Processing (DLP) TV from Samsung costs $5,000, Philips' 55-in. Cineos lists for $4,200, and Sony's 60-in. LCD Grand WEGA is $4,000. By comparison, a 50-in. plasma set, while handsome and sleek, will run you $15,000. And rear-projection TVs have significantly slimmed down their rears, compared with older models, so you don't need a weight lifter to lug one into your...
...Live. Xu Sanguan is a factory worker who argues with his wife, yells at his kids and curses like, well, a Chinese factory worker. But Xu manages to stay human in an increasingly inhuman world. The "blood merchant" of the title, he is willing to sell his plasma to keep his family fed and together?an eerily prescient scenario that evokes the recent real-life traumas in Henan province, where hundreds of thousands of peasants may have contracted HIV by selling their blood. Though Chronicle is at heart more hopeful than To Live, which sometimes reads like Chinese Beckett...
Spangler—which is nearly 120,000 square feet and cost $32 million—boasts leather seats, tunnels connecting it to other campus buildings, an adjoining dining hall, a Coop and post office in the basement as well as flat plasma display screens announcing events...