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...Mitchison and his team received a $999,932 grant from NIH in September to investigate which cancer drugs will be successful early in their development...
Researchers awarded stimulus grants were able to start working “almost immediately,” Mitchison says—unlike in previous years, when they often waited a few months to receive the funds...
Early last year, Harvard Medical School professor Timothy Mitchison pulled aside two scientists employed in his lab. Without more funding soon, Mitchison told them, he would have to let them...
...Later, the English molecular biologist Francis Crick, a co-discoverer in the 1950s of the structure of the DNA molecule, drained a little more romance from dreaming. His and theoretical biologist Graeme Mitchison's "reverse learning" theory held that dreams rid the brain of superfluous notions, and that without this regular flushing brain overload would manifest as hallucinations and obsessions. There are echoes of this idea in the perspective of Drew Dawson, director of the University of South Australia's Centre for Sleep Research: "I tend to think of dreaming as a bit like backwashing the swimming pool filter...
...work Brian is doing is very important both for the creative expression that Brian’s work represents itself, and more generally as an expression of the very rich dialog that is happening today at the art-science interface.”Bill Brieher, a researcher at the Mitchison Lab at HMS, concurs with Edwards. “I think that it’s really excellent that he’s getting coverage and that Harvard did this,” Brieher says.Brieher thinks the most crucial aspect of Knep’s work is its ability...