Word: stroke
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Perhaps council President Beth A. Stewart '00 and company should take the malfunctioning of the computerized elections as a stroke of divine intervention. Perhaps council members are being sent a simple message: You will not exist because there is no need for your existence...
...doesn't officially begin at Greenwich, but don't tell that to anyone in Britain. The London borough, home to the Royal Observatory and located right smack on the 0[degree] meridian, will mark the stroke of midnight, Greenwich mean time, by shooting a green laser beam into the sky and bouncing a satellite signal around the world that will set off international celebrations...
Their research focuses on glutamate, an excitatory neurotransmitter. Scientists had believed that it might be possible to limit cell death after a stroke by stopping glutamate from killing neighboring cells, but until now, little was known about the intracellular routes through which glutamate carries out its deadly "excitotoxic" effects...
...press release, Allessandro Alessandrini, assistant biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a co-author of the study, says, "The exciting thing about this is not only that it deciphers an initial stage in the pathway of stroke, but also suggests that a pathway thought to be involved in cell proliferation may lead to damage early on in ischemia...
...that, on average, the region of cell death in mice receiving the ERK-blocking drug was 55 percent smaller than that of mice not given the drug. Alessandrini noted that in his study, the ERK-blocking drug was administered to the mice before or at the beginning of a stroke, a situation that may not be practical in humans. However, researchers believe that the findings do give hope for discovering other possible ways of stopping a stroke after it has begun...