Word: browne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brown needs a wanted poster with Anya Cowan's picture all over it, because she just stole sole-possession of the Ivy League title from the Bears...
...most dramatic upset of the season, the Harvard field hockey team scored with 10 seconds remaining in overtime to give the Crimson (11-6, 4-3 Ivy) a 3-2 victory over No.15 Brown...
Lots of creatures already reproduce without sex: whiptail lizards, aphids, dandelions, microscopic rotifers. And, of course, human beings. Since the birth of Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby, in 1978, hundreds of thousands of human beings have been conceived in laboratory glassware rather than...
Scientists are also focusing on the differences between two types of fat cells, known as brown and white. The former, active in young mammals (including humans), convert fat into heat rather than storing it. That's crucial in newborns, whose temperature-regulation systems aren't fully formed. As we age, the brown cells become inactive and the white, which convert dietary fat to body fat, take over. Several research teams have found that by reactivating the brown cells in an adult animal with medication, they can burn off fat dramatically. Now the doctors are looking for a genetic switch that...
What's becoming clear to scientists in the obesity business is that the body's energy-processing system involves not one or two but a maze of metabolic pathways. POMC, leptin and brown fat cells are part of the story. But nerve cells have also been implicated in weight regulation, and it's not clear how these different pathways relate to one another. "Not a month goes by," says Dr. Eric Ravussin, director of endocrine research at Eli Lilly, "without publication of a new pathway that regulates feeding behavior, giving us new potential targets...