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BY STELLA ZAWISTOWSKI
This is a fraud case where
an exciting venture went
forward with great expectations and hope only to be dashed by untruth, misrepresentations, hubris, and plain lies.
—US District Judge Edward Davila describing the downfall of health tech company Theranos and its founder Elizabeth Holmes, whom he subsequently sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for defrauding investors, according to NPR (November 18)
This walks, talks, quacks like a human vagina.
—Bioengineer Don Engber speaking to The New York Times about the development of a “vagina on a chip” for use in research (December 8)
ACROSS 1. Social insects with more than 12,000 species 3. Shaped like a starfish 9. Animal in a mutualistic relationship with clownfish 10. Location of the 11-Across 11. Organ with atria 12. Ability that may not require a cerebral cortex 14. ___ chromatids (copies formed during DNA replication) 16. Prefix with “-trophic” or “-zygous” 19. Disease associated with replicative immortality 21. String of amino acids, for example 24. Ruminant with striped legs 25. Like gametes, genetically 26. Valuable beryls 27. Egyptian cobras |
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1. Mitosis stage involving chromosome migration 2. Brain wave type seen during REM sleep 4. Number of vertebrae in a human thorax 5. Gene’s location on a chromosome 6. Common organic solvent 7. Ingests 8. Container for a reagent, often 13. Columns of violent air 15. Perennial that grows on land, despite its name 17. Evade, as immune system detection 18. Flower with dendrobium and phalaenopsis varieties 20. Country that claims ownership of all giant pandas 22. Molecules’ building blocks 23. Tissue that contains hydroxyapatite |