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...said Raul Mostoslavsky, a researcher at Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital who worked on the study. The protein, produced by a longevity gene called SIRT1, is known to perform two main jobs in yeast cells, according to Philipp Oberdoerffer, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School and the study??s lead author. He said that one job is to regulate certain gene, and another is to fix damaged areas of a cell. “You can’t wait for a bunch of proteins [to get to the damaged area],” so the protein...
...It’s a way of highlighting how unfair what goes on in our health care system is,” said Medical School Professor David U. Himmelstein, one of the study??s authors. “It’s immoral what we’re doing. Everybody should have insurance...
...Joseph Glenmullen, a former Harvard Clinical instructor in psychology, questioned the study??s findings, saying that the broadness of current diagnostic criteria for psychiatric disorders may inflate the number of people who actually have these disorders...
Glenmullen added that the study??s conclusions may not be representative of Harvard undergraduates...
...reveal a large number of lives lost, he said he was still surprised by the results. “When we did the study and the number totaled more than 300,000, it was very shocking,” he said. Despite the grim numbers, another one of the study??s authors said he had higher hopes for future South African governments, especially since Mbeki resigned in September 2008 due to pressure from his party, the African National Congress. “I have no doubt that they’ll do much better than they did under...