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ALEXANDRA A. PETRI...
...Petri Dishes...
...really, really ridiculously good-looking statue, resurrected for the purpose. The literal deification of the dork and the lovelorn trials of geeky girl and resident accountant Roseanne (Derek S. Mueller ’10) make for a show that joins frat boys and math puns. Writers Alexandra A. Petri ’10 and Megan L. Amram ’10 opted to limit the offensive one-liners in the all-male Parthenon-era performance to pokes at a capella groups, and the jokes flow unhindered by the cringeworthy jabs that have plagued past HPT performances. But even if Pitches...
...idea with a cancer vaccine is to wake up the immune system and let it know there’s a tumor in the body and it should try to destroy it,” Huebsch said. Current therapies involve reprogramming immune cells in a petri dish to recognize the patient’s particular tumor, said Omar A. Ali, one of the authors. But these cells have a low survival rate, requiring physicians to use large numbers of them to effectively treat tumors, said the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences associate. “These therapies have worked...
Before that can happen, however, Melton wants to learn more about how diseases develop. And iPS cells make that possible too. For the very first time, he can watch Type 1 diabetes unfold in a petri dish as a patient's cells develop from their embryonic state into mature pancreatic cells. The same will be true for other diseases as well. "There is a good reason we don't have treatments for diseases like Parkinson's," says Melton. "That's because the only way science can study them is to wait until a patient appears in the office with symptoms...