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Early on, the researchers rejected the simplest method--suspending the cells in solution and injecting them into the eye--because cells handled in this fashion did not grow particularly well. The team found that it obtained much better results when it attached the cells to a sticky substrate like fibrinogen, a protein involved in blood clotting. "And then," says Ernest, "we made a serendipitous discovery." Dr. Karine Gabrielian, a physician on the team, had been struggling to fashion the thinnest possible slivers of fibrinogen. Checking on her samples one morning, she found that some of the slivers had curled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN SEARCH OF SIGHT | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

Seth, who is also concentrating in the biochemical sciences, is conducting research to develop a method to control specific gene therapies...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Kass and Lisa B. Keyfetz, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Seniors Take Thesis Research to the Lab | 9/30/1997 | See Source »

...shop for fun, move into a smaller house, throw out all credit cards but one--that nevertheless appealed to people whose lives seemed to move from one hassle to another. And since parenthood is the greatest hassle of all (as well as--obligatory disclaimer--delightful, magical, etc.), the method holds. Some of her tips are obvious: keep a master calendar showing your kids' appointments, stock your car with snacks and paper towels. Others are difficult but doable: "It's unrealistic to feel that you can get everything...for your child... Avoid the temptation to buy all those adorable things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOW THEY WANT YOUR KIDS | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...these events are as "important" as titillation-hungry readers might hope. Queen Elizabeth was a sexually insatiable newlywed? What previously cloistered 21-year-old girl wouldn't be? The Duchess of York may have used cocaine? Not exactly unheard of among party girls in the 1980s. Kelley's repertorial method appears to involve repeating anything anyone ever said to her, no matter how unsubstantiated ("Now, I have no absolute proof of this love affair with the Queen..." says a source in a not untypical passage). She certainly doesn't break a sweat trying to make sense of her narrative, most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: WHAT QUESTION OF TASTE? | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...Harvard admissions process we're looking at the individual results of any education method," not the method as a whole, Illingworth said in an interview with The Crimson...

Author: By Tara L. Colon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Homeschooler Gets CNN's Attention | 9/26/1997 | See Source »

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