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...Logan Evans '84, a Dudley House representative who gained council notoriety during an unsuccessful quest for the council chairmanship with grandiose pledges including "King Trivia," said this week that "humiliation will be the name of the game" at the function, which he plans to hold every Friday night despite no formal support from the council's social committee, which he co-chairs...
Exactly what these potentially devastating genes are doing in healthy cells is not clear, but the fact that they are present in so many species suggests that they perform an important function. "God knows, they haven't been conserved through evolution just to make tumors," says Varmus. These genes may play a role during fetal development and then become quiescent, unless activated or altered by carcinogens or cancer viruses. They start out as "normal, good genes," explains Molecular Biologist Robert Weinberg of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "but they become damaged during an individual's lifetime. When damaged...
Before these new discoveries can be applied, more must be learned about the precise function of oncogenes in the cell. Every gene in nature carries a code, or recipe, for creating a specific protein. If a single gene is responsible for producing cancer, it must be a result of the protein that the gene creates. Researchers are just beginning to figure out what kinds of proteins oncogenes make. Once they do, scientists may be able to develop tests to detect tiny traces of these proteins; such tests could allow the diagnosis of cancer at a far earlier stage than...
...teaching is just liking your student and building a rapport," says Yee. "The English comes in there somewhere "Many tutors function effectively without knowing any Chinese, she says...
...Chinese leaders are hypersensitive on the Taiwan issue partly because they are feeling vulnerable to internal critics of their own. The huge Chinese Communist Party (39 million members) contains diehard Maoists, provincial military commanders who function as virtual warlords and others who oppose Deng Xiaoping's policy of turning to the capitalist world for help. They also accuse him of subjecting China to humiliation over the sale of the new U.S. jets to Taiwan...