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David Anderson and his colleagues at Cal Tech have, for example, identified many environmental triggers that get the nervous system's stem cells to turn into neurons or into their supporting glial cells. They've also gone inside stem cells to isolate the genes responsible for the transformations. As with most adult stem cells, these cells appear, so far, to be limited in the types of tissue into which they can differentiate. Yet they still give rise to many different kinds of neurons--from sensory cells in your nose to touch receptors on your fingertips. The next step, Anderson says...
...1940s, CRLS--formed by the 1977 merger of Cambridge High and Latin and Rindge Tech--did not exist. Instead, a fiery rivalry existed between Cambridge's two high schools...
...Cambridge High and Latin 44, Rindge Tech nothing," Caulfield said. "There are a lot of scowling eyes out there," he added a moment later as the audience laughed...
...Wall Streeters could be forgiven for taking a wait-and-see attitude as the week ended. The stats, showing both hopeful and distressing signs about potential inflation, were enough for investors to keep their heads in the sand and concentrate on catching the wave of a rebound market for tech stocks. What they can't afford to do, however, is to ignore the figures that most interest Fed chairman Alan Greenspan - labor costs - as he prepares to decide whether to raise interest rates again when the Federal Reserve meets in May. And those figures were bad. On Thursday the government...
...kidding themselves if they think this market has become safe again," he says. "The market has stabilized in the past two weeks and people have very quickly become complacent again. They don't seem to mind the inflation figures - and that's particularly true of NASDAQ investors, because tech companies aren't as affected by inflation as old-economy firms are. But rising interest rates are another story. They're a problem for all stocks...