Word: celling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sager had cancer of the bladder, according to her husband, Dr. Arthur B. Pardee. Pardee is Professor Emeritus of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at HMS and Chief of the Division of Cell Growth and Regulation at Dana-Farber...
...State University of New York at Stony Brook. The molecule, mitogen-activated protein kinase, or MAP kinase, is five to 20 percent more prevalent in women with breast cancer than in those without the affliction. Researchers say the molecule's migration into the nucleus of a breast cell causes the cell to begin replicating wildly, thus causing cancer. If confirmed, the discovery would allow doctors to test for high levels of MAP kinase and identify women at risk of the disease well before deadly tumors begin to develop...
...mentioned cell biologist Ursula Goodenough's quip that if cloning were perfected, "there'd be no need for men." If your article had been written by Jorge Luis Borges, Annie Proulx, Thomas Pynchon or another author with a penchant for serendipitous character names, I'd know for certain that "Goodenough" was herself a clone. JONATHAN BRENNER BALKIND London...
...Tories were not amused. Cell phones were already banned in the chamber because of their disruptive rings, but use of a silent pager presented a whole new issue. And the notion of stiff-lipped British pols beeping and winking their way through the Commons made more than one Conservative M.P. queasy. After mulling the matter over for an evening, Speaker Betty Boothroyd ruled that using the gadgets as an aide-memoire was "totally unacceptable," handing the Tories a victory in battle. But with the general election fast approaching, Labour's rapid response showed its determination...
...answer that question, scientists must first understand what causes Alzheimer's, and right now they have only intriguing clues. The most popular hypothesis holds that the disease process starts when a protein called beta amyloid accumulates outside nerve cells, forming the deposits known as plaques. Among other things, plaques appear to impair the ability of neurons to absorb glucose from the bloodstream, generating an energy crisis inside the cell. A competing hypothesis maintains that Alzheimer's begins not with beta amyloid but with a protein called tau. Abnormal variants of this protein, say scientists, clutter the interiors of neurons with...