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Diabetes researchers believe that the disorder is caused by some type of immune reaction gone awry - immune cells are "trained" in the thymus gland to recognize the body's own cells and protect them from destruction. For some reason, this education doesn't occur properly in Type 1 diabetes patients, and the immune system sees the pancreatic beta cells as foreign. Melton's team is currently working to generate thymus cells from diabetic patients in the same way the team created the beta cells, in order to put all the players together in a lab dish, in a kind...
...What was your reaction when Virgin Mobile came to you and told you they wanted to make this festival free? I thought the idea was brilliant. This is the worst economic year for young people since they've been born. A lot of them are out of work, are struggling to get jobs, and quite a large number are quite literally on the street. I'm sure I gulped and then almost definitely said, "Screw it - let's do it." And it's such a feel-good thing for everybody, and I think we'll raise a lot of money...
...decided to sacrifice a piece of my luggage to take the prototype robot on my way to Sri Lanka on July 9. One of my Radcliffe research partners, Lahiru Jayathilaka, who worked on the robot’s perception and reaction, planned to meet me in Sri Lanka on July 10 to carry out field trials. I had informed the defense attaché of the Sri Lankan embassy in Washington, D.C., about this transfer and had requested him to inform the customs at the airport in Colombo and the Ministry of Defense to avoid delays. Both the defense attach?...
Journalists covering the Afghan war rely heavily on coalition forces to gain access to a hardscrabble backcountry populated by Taliban militants. So the reaction was far from muted when the news broke last week that the Defense Department was paying a controversial private firm to profile reporters seeking to accompany - or "embed" - with troops. Reporters quickly complained that it was tantamount to building a blacklist and that the U.S. military was deliberately working to sideline journalists critical of its mission...
...None of this probably bothered Gaddafi, say Libya watchers, who believe the absences in the VIP stands were a superficial show of protest at Libya's reaction to al-Megrahi's release, rather than a sign of a rift between Libya and the West. "This is a significant country with an unusual leader, who uses his wealth to conjure up influence in places like Africa," says Richard Dalton, who was Britian's ambassador to Libya until 2002 and is now a fellow at the London think tank Chatham House. For the West, he says, Gaddafi is "much better to work...