Word: bloodstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soon took Anderson under his wing, as author Larry Thompson recounts in Correcting the Code, a forthcoming book about the pioneers of gene therapy. At one of Edsall's seminars, Anderson became intrigued by a visiting British scientist's talk about the hemoglobin molecule, which transports oxygen in the bloodstream. A thought occurred to Anderson, and he blurted it out. "If you could determine its structure," he reasoned out loud, "then you could do the same with sickle hemoglobin and determine what the defect is." And because that structure is determined by genes, he went on excitedly, "you could actually...
...physical mechanism linking heart attacks and stress may have been found, a discovery that could ultimately help prevent heart attacks. Mental stress seems to make blood platelets release the chemical atp into the bloodstream, and atp produces blood clots, a major cause of heart attacks...
...liver takes eight hours to eliminate alcohol from the bloodstream, but Detoxahol, an experimental drug, may shorten that process to minutes. Compumed Inc., the California medical firm that holds the rights to Detoxahol, hopes to market it as a prescription drug within five years...
These feelings-behind-policy, this Great Power subjectivism, often arises spontaneously from pictures, either still photographs or television clips, that are mainlined directly into the democracy's emotional bloodstream without the mediation of conscious thought. America got into Somalia because it felt a sane and generous outrage at the spectacle of thousands of children and other innocent people starving while gangs of thugs stole the food from their bowls. Now the majority of Americans want to withdraw from Somalia because they have felt a converse outrage at pictures of an American soldier's body gruesomely dragged through the dust...
...blocking their action neatly thwarts one of the body's most basic functions: the breakdown and utilization of dietary fat. Most of the fat we eat is too . . . well, fat to be absorbed by the body. Before it can pass through the walls of the intestine into the bloodstream, each fat molecule must be split into its constituent parts: three fatty acids and the glycerol backbone to which they are attached. That is the job of two fat-cleaving enzymes, called lipases; one of them is found in the stomach and the other in the small intestine. Once...