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...Since rats are used in many laboratory experiments and their whiskers function in a similar way to the human sense of touch, it is important to understand how they perceive objects and sense surfaces. "Most of modern biology is based on studying rodents," says Moore. "It is crucial to understand them." While MIT's research has figured out much of the unknown about the mechanics of the rats' whiskers, future research still needs to be done to understand how their brains actually decode and interprets the information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rats' Whiskers Have Feelings, Too | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

...Institute, to help him fight a rare blood condition called myelodysplastic syndrome. After doctors couldn't find a matching bone-marrow donor, the 58-year-old New Yorker says his last hope was cord blood, a solution that would not exist without parental donors. New parents, Beninati urges, "must understand the importance this decision can mean for the public good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creating a Cord-Blood Lifeline | 2/26/2008 | See Source »

...defending his decision to become a spokesperson for Lipitor, Jarvik last month said in a statement on his company's website, "I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science. I have the training, experience and medical knowledge to understand the conclusions of the extensive clinical trials that have been conducted to study the safety and effectiveness of Lipitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Problem with Jarvik's Prescription | 2/26/2008 | See Source »

...think these [blogs] are bad, and bad for the community,” said Ellison in an e-mailed statement. “Indeed, even if what is said is true there is never enough context in these type of things to fully understand what happened...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gossip Geek Gains Ground | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

...Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina seceded during the Balkan Wars of the '90s. Then Montenegro declared independence in 2006. Kosovo seceded from Serbia last Sunday, and now the northern region of Kosovo wants to secede and rejoin Serbia. I don't have a dog in this latest fight - or even understand it much - but if someone wants to quit the firm, it seems to me you ought to let him go. The tension arises, of course, because the ones eyeing the door usually want to take a pile of the firm's assets along with them. And you do have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enough With the New Countries | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

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