Word: biochemist
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...indicator, identified by Biochemist Peter Davies, 38, and his graduate student Benjamin Wolozin, 28, is an abnormal protein in the brains of & Alzheimer's victims that also appears in the spinal fluid of living patients thought to have the disease. It is not known if the protein, called A-68, plays a role in causing the illness, but so far it is unique to Alzheimer's; that is, it has not been linked to other brain disorders. If further trials prove A-68 a reliable indicator, Davies says, a routine laboratory test for Alzheimer's could be available...
...persists in her pioneering research into the nervous system, using makeshift equipment in a farmhouse bedroom. Food is so scarce that after experimenting on chicken embryos, she whips the leftover yolks into omelets. But she perseveres. Invited to work in the U.S. after the war, she meets a young biochemist, and together they launch a new field that promises hope for everything from cancer to burns...
...methods -- frying, for example -- also generate small amounts of carcinogens. As for the URPs, they are not new creations at all, says the FDA, but simply existing chemicals that have not been detected before in the human diet. "There's no food that is completely known," points out FDA Biochemist Clyde Takeguchi. "You can't identify everything that's in an apple. The basis for establishing safety is not absolute safety. It's reasonable safety...
During her teens, Maria Menna Perper, 42, a New Jersey biochemist, suffered intestinal problems around the time of her period. By her late 30s, she felt "excruciating, burning pain" in her colon every month "like clockwork." Eventually the pain became continuous, and it was impossible for her to work or even sit down...
...enough, plaque may actually begin to melt away. Only in the past few years have doctors had the tools to achieve such reductions. LDL-pheresis is one example, while new experimental drugs like Mevinolin, particularly when combined with existing drugs, also hold great promise. "What's exciting now," observes Biochemist Thomas Parker, director of the Rogosin lipid laboratory, "is that for the first time researchers all over the world can begin to study the possibility of reversing atherosclerosis...