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Like so many genetic discoveries these days, the new findings are likely to be a mixed blessing. A screening test could identify people at high risk of osteoporosis even at birth. That knowledge would provide relief for some parents and their offspring -- and certain worry for others. But researchers stress that having the B form of the vitamin D receptor gene does not doom people to a severe case of the disease...
...from a crude empirical set of notions to a real understanding of life processes, with profound implications for disease.”Long after the Summers-Faculty fight is forgotten, these five advances in the life sciences from the past academic year will continue to wield an impact.A BLOOD TEST ON YOUR BLACKBERRY?Last September, Charles M. Lieber, the Hyman professor of chemistry, put the finishing touches on an invention that could revolutionize the process of detecting and monitoring diseases such as cancer.Lieber explains in an e-mail that his device consists of several hundred silicon wires, each measuring only...
...refused to take herself seriously,” says Matthew A. Long, a fellow Law School student. Childhood friend Lidia Rekas, who has known Shakir since the fifth grade, says that her last memory of Shakir was when she helped Rekas prepare for the Graduate Management Admissions Test. “We stayed up all night and ate pizza, and I slept on her couch that night,” Rekas says. “Shirin’s absence leaves me with a huge hole in my heart.” A frequent triathlon competitor, Rekas vows to dedicate...
...since the Civil War. Pushing stubbornly as if each day might be his last on the job, that day arrived sooner than expected. With much work left unfinished—the conclusions of the curricular review hardly at hand, Allston planning still ripe for revision—the true test for the Summers legacy becomes whether his vision outlasts his five years, whether his ideas prevail. Should Summers’ dismissal mark an about-face for a university in dire need of a new path to march along, as some claim, then Summers’ presidency will be viewed...
...current hours and have the rest shift their schedules back by at least an hour. Yes, some students will eat more meals in other Houses as a result, but the benefits of having more flexibility while not using up more manhours will greatly outweigh the costs. A test run would not be hard to execute. 10. Expos. Expository Writing 20 should not be a requirement. While Expos 10 serves a valuable purpose for students who enroll, Expos 20 has no uniform standard and does nothing but clog up a valuable spot for freshmen who, according to all the rhetoric surrounding...