Her current favorite cup is a cylindrical one that has, among other breeds, a picture of a Labrador retriever; her own, long-loved Lab died recently.
Roger M. Needham, a leading computer scientist who did pioneering work on security software, led Cambridge University's computer science laboratory for 15 years and started Microsoft's first overseas research lab, died Friday at his home in Coton, England.
Some of the animals in her lab died unexpectedly, and her measurements captured a surge in neurochemicals at the moment of their death.
But I didn't want my lab to die.
But what the examinations did not turn up is probably as revealing as what they did: in all the huge volume of specimens this year, relatively few animals, the lab found, died from accidental pesticide exposure.
Twenty-two percent of the lab mice died, but those that survived showed profound changes in their immune systems.
Margos didn't have the benefit of advance notice when the head of her lab, Klaus Kurtenbach, died suddenly in March of a stomach ulcer.
More caveats before proceeding to unpalatable measures: The impression I have that your lab is dying is based only on the evidence of your message.
That observation was intriguing, because in their lab work, insects die most often during a molt.
Rather than let some promising work die, lab manager David Huber coaxed the company to license the technology to him.
