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...What Kaspar and his team found was that the same effect could be achieved simply by injecting genes - ferried aboard a small, non-disease-causing virus known as AAV, or adeno-associated virus - into the muscle. They further discovered that once the gene was delivered into the muscle-cell nucleus, muscles began producing their own constant supply of follistatin, and muscle fibers kept growing. Think of it as the body producing its own muscle-boosting drugs...
...impressed the Israelis with its willingness to enforce calm on the West Bank. But Dayton and others have warned that the force derives its motivation - and its ability to withstand charges by fellow Palestinians that it is doing Israel's work - from the belief that is the security nucleus of an emerging Palestinian state. Absent the prospect of imminent statehood, the men trained by Dayton may lack an incentive to police the West Bank. (See pictures of life in the West Bank settlements...
...editorial, one New Yorker fired off the epistolary missile: “May I suggest that the reason Boston is ‘overflowing’ with culture is the shallow vessel in which it is contained?”) Others propose that the very idea of an intellectual nucleus is outdated, with the collective energy of e-mail, blogs, and Twitter heralding a more diffuse power breakdown—in high-school-chemistry-speak, more plum pudding than Bohr model...
...Scientists have not really understood how the double helix folds to fit into the nucleus of a human cell,” said co-first author Erez Lieberman-Aiden, a researcher at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and in the laboratory of Eric S. Lander at the Broad Institute. “This new approach enabled us to probe exactly that question...
...regular starters, including six All-Ivy players—among them the feared wide receiver duo of Buddy Farnham and Bobby Sewall.“Brown’s good every year,” Murphy says. “They’re returning the nucleus of their football team, other than quarterback. They have more people returning than any other team I think in our league.”Harvard’s biggest question mark heading into tomorrow’s season opener at Holy Cross is unarguably at quarterback. But Murphy seems confident in his play...