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Blood is drawn intravenously through a tube stretching across the room through an opening in the wall, which can be attached to a subject's arm for up to a week. A technician can therefore draw blood regularly without disturbing the subject, even when he or she is asleep...

Author: By Mary W. Lu, | Title: Harvard Lab Studies Daily Biorhythms | 11/29/1995 | See Source »

Ironically, according to Jayne, the worst part of the technician's job is a rotating schedule. Since technicians wake patients up and bring them meals, a regular staff schedule would give subjects time cues," or clues about what the actual time is rather than what time they are subjectively experiencing...

Author: By Mary W. Lu, | Title: Harvard Lab Studies Daily Biorhythms | 11/29/1995 | See Source »

...event that a technician inadvertently leaves a document in a subject's room, all paperwork is labelled with a "lab time" that disguises the actual time and does not rely on a.m. and p.m. distinctions...

Author: By Mary W. Lu, | Title: Harvard Lab Studies Daily Biorhythms | 11/29/1995 | See Source »

Harvard students can participate in circadian rhythm research in three ways: They can apply for a Nathariel Kleitman Fellowship, work as a work/study lab technician or volunteer as subjects in a study. The Kleitman Fellowship is a summer program founded by Megan E. Jewett '87, a resident tutor at Currier House, to honor the American researcher to first discover REM sleep...

Author: By Mary W. Lu, | Title: Harvard Lab Studies Daily Biorhythms | 11/29/1995 | See Source »

Huynh, who as a technician had less input into the research process, says, "It was interesting at first but after a while everything got very repetitive and menial...I usually had the night shift so I didn't really see anyone."CrimsonMary W. Lu Technicians monitor the subjects in the studies from a high-tech control room...

Author: By Mary W. Lu, | Title: Harvard Lab Studies Daily Biorhythms | 11/29/1995 | See Source »

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