Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent years, town-gown relations have been characterized by tension and strain. From the University's land dealings in Allston to its plans for the new Knafel Center, many Cantabrigians have comes to see Harvard as an insensitive Goliath, acting without regard for local interests. The University's decision to do something to ameliorate the dearth of low-income housing-one of the local community's most pressing problems-should be well received...
...Snyder announced in print that his lab had removed stemlike cells from mouse brains and had grown them in a culture. Snyder then teamed up with Dr. Jeff Macklis, a colleague at Harvard Medical School who had engineered a strain of mouse whose neurons died off in a tiny region of the cortex where cells were not known to regenerate. Snyder injected the stem cells into the mice. Like heat-seeking missiles, the cells rapidly sought out the injured part of the cortex and transformed themselves into healthy neurons. "That's the beauty of stem cells," says Snyder...
...conventional wisdom says no, but by mid-century that assessment--along with the sniffles--may well be ancient history. Colds are considered incurable today because it would take months to come up with a vaccine for every new strain. That's fine for the flu, which breeds in animals and only jumps over to humans every year or two. But colds mutate even while they're infecting you, and new strains pop up so often that by the time drugmakers create a vaccine against one variation, the serum is already out of date...
...point the way toward a cold cure though. Scientists at the University of Ghent, in Belgium, have found a protein called M2 that seems to be present in virtually every flu strain known to man. Using that knowledge, they have made a vaccine that they think could protect against all flus--old, new and those not yet in existence...
...similar protein is found in cold viruses--a protein that's present no matter what strain is involved--then it is possible that by 2025 or so, children could be getting a universal cold vaccine. And then they will have to listen to us old geezers reminisce about the days when we used to carry a small white cloth called a handkerchief...