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That's the tricky thing about this new, more individualized exploration of genetics. The effect of a polymorphism may vary depending on where in a gene it is found and the influence of other genes. And a particular alteration can have varying effects in different populations. For instance, a variant gene called apolipoprotein E4 seems to increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease if you are Caucasian or Japanese but not if you are a black African. It's important to know not only the SNPs but also their context to understand "who will respond and who will...
...said TTF co-cordinator Noah E. Lewis, a recent graduate of Harvard Law School. “It’s a symbol of all the policy changes that Harvard will embark on in order to live up to its commitment to nondiscrimination of transgender and gender-variant students...
...hours and is limited to the first 72 hours after unprotected sex, proponents of Plan B say any obstacle--a doctor who is unavailable to write a prescription or a pharmacy that is out of stock--runs down the clock toward an unplanned pregnancy. The drug, a high-dose variant of ordinary birth-control pills, works in a similar way, by preventing ovulation and fertilization. It can also inhibit a fertilized egg from implanting itself on the wall of the uterus, resulting in what anti--abortion-rights advocates say is effectively an abortion. In any case, it can do nothing...
...drug, which is available only by prescription, is a high-dose variant of ordinary birth control pills and works in a similar way, by preventing ovulation and fertilization. It can also work by inhibiting a fertilized egg from implanting itself in the uterus, a process that anti-abortion-rights advocates say is effectively an abortion. In a concession to opponents, Wal-Mart will keep its policy allowing individual pharmacists with moral qualms about Plan B to turn a customer down, as long as they refer her to another pharmacist or nearby pharmacy. (That policy will not apply in Massachusetts...
...While a few dogged interviewees listed the celebration of culture and community as draws to the biggest Shabbat dinner in Harvard history, Adam J. Scheuer ’06 was not alone in his smart-ass sentiment. So many of the students polled by FM offered up some variant of the search to “identify a provider,” as Jack P. McCambridge ’06 put it, that FM had to stop another would-be jokester mid-sentence to preserve our sanity before the dinner even began. University President Lawrence H. Summers started the festivities...