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While detecting VCJD in the blood supply is of pressing importance, what tantalizes investors and clinicians is the prospect of a similar blood test to diagnose Alzheimer's disease. Doctors screen for the illness today using cognitive and memory exams, spinal taps or imaging tests--all pricey, none fail-safe. For the hundreds of companies working on treatments, that means relying on drug trials involving patients who may not even have the disease. "That's why the treatments we have now don't work that well," says Adams. In September, Amorfix announced that its technology can detect aggregated beta-amyloid...
...have an incentive for many people to do i-banking and other lucrative careers. If anything, the university should make sure the door is open to public service careers, but should be career-neutral,” says Tannenwald. Despite the prosperity and privileges that Wall Street promises, the prospect of transforming the globe, starting with their own hometowns, might influence future graduates to cultivate brain gain. New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Balciunas is not alone is seeing promise elsewhere: “I think it’s exciting to maybe go back...
...unlimited local and long-distance calls), but officials have enough to be worried about these days just getting customers hooked up with Web access. Fewer than 200 accounts have been activated, while 1,350 locals remain on a waiting list, in part because of start-up problems with Prospect Street Broadband, a venture firm selected to handle Zplug's day-to-day operations, and in part because utility workers are still installing the network. City officials expect to name a new investor sometime...
...senior season. She’s also the emotional leader of a Harvard team that needed some heroics last season to set it on its run to the championship. Entering its Ivy League opener at Dartmouth, the Crimson, with a 2-11 non-conference mark, faced the prospect of another disappointing year. The game also brought two more immediate challenges: the two-time defending Ancient Eight champion Big Green, and a stomach bug plaguing its star point guard. But Hallion shook off her illness in Hanover to record a career-high 22 points, including 18 after the break, to will...
...assured of elevation to South Africa's highest office in 2009. The only man who could beat Zuma to the party post is the incumbent, but though Mbeki has declared that he is willing to serve again, he has been weakened by a series of political missteps. The prospect of a Zuma presidency or two more years under the lame-duck Mbeki so alarms some in the party's old guard that they are scrambling to nominate alternatives, including ANC stalwarts turned businessmen Tokyo Sexwale and Cyril Ramaphosa...