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...next step for scientists was obvious: study the cells with little or no replication limit and find out what mechanism kept their telomeres--and their lives--so long. In 1984 molecular biologists Carol Greider and Elizabeth Blackburn, then with the University of California, Berkeley, did just that. Working with a single-cell pond organism, they discovered a telomere-preserving enzyme they dubbed telomerase. Five years later, Gregg Morin at Yale University confirmed their work, identifying the same substance in cancer cells. In the Petri dish, the agent of eternal life had been found...
DIED. MARIO SAVIO, 53, fiery, eloquent leader of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s whose success inspired similar protests nationwide; after suffering cardiac fibrillation; in Sebastopol, California...
William M. Runyan, a professor at the School of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley, said he agreed for the most part...
Sources also say that Laura D'Andrea Tyson, the outgoing Chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, was sought by the business school. However, it now appears that she will return to her former position at the University of California-Berkeley...
According to a poll by the Daily Cal, Berkeley's daily newspaper, 45 percent of Berkeley students want affirmative action on campus to stay, 37 percent are against it and 18 percent are undecided...