Word: projects
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Ronald A. Orcutt, associate director of OIT, said the project was part of a plan to make University-wide improvements available to undergraduates. "The world we have to access is personal computer-based and dominated by Macintoshes," he said. "We want to respond to that...
...current research project centers around four sets of tests under the direction of a pair of physicians at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Three of the procedures measure body fat, and the other traces estrogen metabolism in the body...
...procedure, supervised by Bruce R. Rosen, an assistant professor at the Medical School and the director of Clinical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance at MGH, serves as the main emphasis of the entire project, entitled, "MRI--of body fat, ovulation, and estrogen metabolism...
Another of the project's tests follows the breakdown of estrogen by allowing doctors to trace low levels of radioactive forms of the hormone molecules through the body. "Athletes destroy estrogen faster than non-athletes, so their bodies are exposed to less" of the hormone, and this may lead to decreased cancer risk, says Barbieri, who has worked with both Frisch and Snow in the past...
...Hopefully, we will be able to understand how estrogen metabolism and fatness work in individual women, and to explain the frequency of ovulation," Snow says of the project...