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This fall, Weed returned to his studies in the life sciences and came to Harvard to pursue his doctoral degree...

Author: By Sheila VERA Flynn, | Title: A Medical Sciences Student Overcomes Remarkable Obstacles | 4/16/1996 | See Source »

...Weed says two doctoral classes, lab work and tutoring took up a substantial chunk of his life at first, but now he has gotten into the main focus of his studies at Harvard: genes...

Author: By Sheila VERA Flynn, | Title: A Medical Sciences Student Overcomes Remarkable Obstacles | 4/16/1996 | See Source »

...Weed says he uses Genetics Computing Group (GCG) software to examine DNA and protein structure, and how one converts to the other. The software allows him to make predictions, such as what a protein might look like at a later stage...

Author: By Sheila VERA Flynn, | Title: A Medical Sciences Student Overcomes Remarkable Obstacles | 4/16/1996 | See Source »

...important figure in Weed's Harvard experience has been W. Kelley Gardner, the Director of Information Services at the Joslin Diabetes Center in the Medical Area, where a $60,000 computer system provides Weed with Digital hardware and the text-to-speech software called DECTalk...

Author: By Sheila VERA Flynn, | Title: A Medical Sciences Student Overcomes Remarkable Obstacles | 4/16/1996 | See Source »

...interact with the computers, Weed has learned to touch-type and, once his fingers find the home-row, he can conduct his scientific work and respond to e-mail messages...

Author: By Sheila VERA Flynn, | Title: A Medical Sciences Student Overcomes Remarkable Obstacles | 4/16/1996 | See Source »

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