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That same year, other research teams, including one led by Selkoe, created yet another stir. They zeroed in on the elusive enzymes that snip the beta-amyloid fragment from the precursor protein. "We had the paper, and now we had the scissors," says Selkoe. If he is right, one of those scissors, gamma secretase, may actually be the presenilin-1 protein. Whatever the true identity of gamma secretase turns out to be, pharmaceutical companies are rushing to develop drugs that block it. Bristol-Myers Squibb has already started safety tests of one such compound and hopes to expand its study...
That's just what folks across the country are doing: convening to cut and snip at their histories; to turn inconvenient realities into Kodak moments; to prove, in other words, that the past is perfectible. They meet to make scrapbooks...
...Britain's class system. (Ironically, at test screenings, some teens thought it was fiction.) In Filth's strangest, most poignant moment, he breaks down crying while discussing Sid Vicious, the bandmate he lost to heroin. "I care about anyone dying a stupid death," he says, though he fought to snip his sobbing from the final cut. Says director Julien Temple: "I argued that this moment that seemed like pathetic weakness was actually a window into his humanity...
...enzyme could finally offer a target at which drug designers could aim their medications, just as they currently use protease inhibitors to block the activity of the AIDS virus. That potential target is called beta-secretase. It had long been postulated to act as a chemical scissors that helps snip away pieces of excess protein protruding from brain cells, thereby creating the debris that gathers into the toxic plaques called amyloid. The accumulation of these fibrous clumps in the brain of Alzheimer's patients is the likeliest reason for their inexorable decline...
...York City's Fifth Avenue not far from Tiffany's gems sits a different kind of jewel box: a 20,000-sq.-ft. pleasure palace awash in cool shades of celery and dove and replete with overstuffed furniture and antiques. Top stylists have been lured to snip and color hair, usually after guests have had massages, facials, mudpacks, herbal wraps or nail services. "With career and mothering, I don't have time," says TV producer Colleen Growe, 39. But every few weeks, she'll break away for a leisurely manicure, haircut and massage. "Just walking down the hall feels luxurious...