Word: research
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chinese administrators also had the opportunity to discuss the role of research universities in education, looking at current trends in academia and discussing how to structure academic departments...
Maria Cristina Caballero, a research editor for Semana Magazine and currently a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, said death threats forced her to leave Colombia...
Candidate statement: "I do my homework (study and research the issues), I take the long view because important things don't happen over night, I represent the public good and not just one interest group...
Just when you thought you'd heard just about everything about gene research - scientists have supposedly isolated every predisposition from breast cancer to sugar addiction - a group of California doctors claim to have found the DNA strand responsible for the industrialized world's number one killer, heart failure. In a report released Thursday, the team of UC San Diego doctors told of mating mice genetically engineered to contain the gene phospholamban, or PLB, which they believed was responsible for heart failure, with mice that lacked the PLB gene. The resulting offspring did not develop heart failure. They also created mice...
...TIME science reporter Janice Horowitz cautions that while speculating on medical cures can be as tempting as a hunk of cheddar to a mouse, the public shouldn't get trapped into generalizing about research performed on mice. "What goes on with lab mice is many, many steps away from what goes on with humans," says Horowitz. "And the work we're doing now with gene therapy is only the tip of the iceberg. It'll be a long time before these things pan out into medical cures...