“We feel it is urgent that people with Parkinson’s go to the pharmaceutical industry and policymakers alike, demanding immediate action to fight this enormous threat.”
Rochester Researchers say the Parkinson’s community must come together and focus its activism in several ways:
- Support a better understanding of the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson’s to help prevent its onset.
- Increase access to care—an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the US and Europe don’t see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations.
- Advocate for increases in research funding for the disease.
- Lower cost of treatments—many patients in low-income countries don’t have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.
To perform this quantum magic, the researchers measured the frequency of a signal—such as a pendulum on a grandfather clock—using a quantum bit, the smallest unit of quantum information, analogous to a binary digit bit in a standard computer. In quantum physics, particles do not have definite states as they do in classical physics. Instead, they have probabilities of being one thing or another. Using these strange rules of quantum mechanics, researchers were able to put a quantum bit in a superposition of two different energy states at the same time, then shift around these states in time with the measured system (such as the swinging pendulum) in order to measure the frequency.
The “ambiguity of the slogan surely accounts for its appeal,” she writes in her book Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History (Knopf, 2007), a series of essays reflecting on the catchphrase.
But history is made in many ways. “I don’t think it means, necessarily, running for office,” she says. “It could also mean studying the past. It could mean collecting documents. It could mean preserving tortillas.
“It could be any number of things.”
We’re looking at you, Sue B! 👀
“It’s microbubbles to the rescue.”
“This is a heavy tech town… Something a little bit tech-y might help Memorial Art Gallery connect in new ways with the broader community here, which is the child of Xerox, Kodak, Bausch and Lomb, Western Union, and American Express. It’s not a blue-collar, rust-belt city. This is a white-collar precision-manufacturing city.”
—Memorial Art Gallery director Jonathan Binstock on Rochester, NY, nicknamed the World’s Image Center
The engineered gene therapy has been described as a revolutionary “living drug” and one of the most powerful cancer treatments to emerge in recent years.
“I think it’s important, in today’s America, that we understand how dictatorships work, how they transform activism into a form of demagoguery.”
“…if you try something, you might not get the result you wanted. But if you never try it, you definitely won’t get it.”
According to Nora Rubel, associate professor of religion, the break fast makes the holiday more like other Jewish holidays, which tend to be food-centered. “And being with people. Judaism has never been a monastic religion,” she laughs. “The major important prayers, you have to have ten people.” Judaism is a religion practiced in congregation — and at the table.
“Figuring out how to generate terahertz waves from liquid water is a fundamental breakthrough because water is such an important element in the human body and on Earth.”
