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...Researchers in Sawyers' lab began with a chemical that showed promise in attaching to the androgen receptor on cancer cells. Then the scientists, like composers writing variations on a theme, synthesized nearly 200 versions of the drug and screened each one on prostate-cancer cells that had been engineered to be drug-resistant. In the end, two molecules - RD162 and MDV3100 - fit the experimental criteria, binding to the receptor site without stimulating cancer-cell growth. Both chemical compounds were then tested in mice. "They caused the tumors to shrink significantly," says Sawyers...
...Secretary of The Harvard Crossword SocietyRoving Reporter (RR): What’s your favorite crossword clue of all time?Robert P. Ciofani (RPC): My roommate Kyle Mahowald is the person you really want to talk to. He interned with Will Shortz a few summers ago. I liked the theme of one of his puzzles. It was “Not ‘ie’ but ‘e’” so he took words with “ie” in them and replaced that with...
FILM COMPOSERS DON'T write melodies so much as emotions; their music is the heartbeat that gives movie images instant and lasting resonance. Jarre, who died in Los Angeles on March 29 at 84, put this knowledge to use in his first famous scores: the heroic theme that lent a galloping grandeur to David Lean's 1962 Middle Eastern western, Lawrence of Arabia, and the chorus of balalaikas in Lean's 1965 Doctor Zhivago that promised ecstatic reunion after the grimmest separation. In a half-century of movie work, Jarre wrote the music for more than 150 features...
...flush of his career, he took so many assignments because he had three ex-wives and a lot of alimony to pay. The first of his marriages produced a son, Jean-Michel Jarre, a renowned composer of electronic music. But it is Papa Maurice's "Lara's Theme" from Zhivago moviegoers recall whenever they think of snow, sleds and the ache of lost love...
...theme that the Advising Programs Office has selected for this two-week journey of self-discovery/non-discovery? “Chart Your Own Course.” Some words of wisdom from the Advising Fortnight homepage: “Think of your life at Harvard like navigating an ocean. You can steer your ship any way you’d like to go, and there are infinite paths that guide you to your destination.” If FlyBy had tear ducts, its eyes would be moist right...