Word: cell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...combination of a photo-electric cell with a radio vacuum-tube...
...Cell-immortality is not a new demonstration. It has already been demonstrated that one-celled animals can live indefinitely. But from single-celled animals there is a wide gap. Dr. Carrel's chickenheart-tissue is not a chicken. It is in effect a group of single cells living individually in an ideal environment without mutual interdependence. The real importance of the experiment is that it may furnish important information on the processes of tissue growth...
...Hamburg, Germany, lived a boa constrictor. He was the pride of the municipal zoo, and all day he reclined in his cell, staring down with absorbed eyes at his scaled and glittering body. The keeper, observing this, reflected: "How beautiful he is to himself, this hideous creature." One day, a few minutes late with the boa constrictor's supper, the keeper hurried into his cage to find him stretched on the floor, in the shape of a great stiff zero with one end of him inside the other. He had tried to eat his tail; his teeth had become...
...Chicago, one Campbell McCarthy, waited in a death-house to be hanged for murder. He had only one meal left to eat on earth, and that he knew would be a good one-chicken. Suddenly the jailer came to his cell and told him his execution had been stayed. Mr. McCarthy's face brightened, then fell. Said he: "Captain, lemme ask you one favor. Lemme stay in here tonight, Boss, and eat ma meal. Lemme eat that chicken just like I was going...
...matter-of-fact beings, possessing the milk of human kindness in amounts inversely proportionate to the extent of their knowledge. The October issue of The Scientific Monthly contains two bits of evidence. In a highly technical account of the state of knowledge of the genes (constituent parts of sex cell chromosomes, which are believed to determine an organism's inherited characteristics), Dr. Walter L. Treadway of the U. S. Public Health Service paused to say: "In none of the experiments discussed in this article have the animals been given any painful treatments...