Word: cellularly
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Target Validation: Cellular and molecular biology studies to evaluate a gene's specific function in the disease process, resulting in a target...
...latest attempt to prevent 1984 comes from within the scientific field's own ranks. Stuart Newman, a cellular biologist at the New York Medical Center in Valhalla and a founding member of the Council for Responsible Genetics, is afraid that the current technology has advanced far enough to make possible the creation of new species from human and animal DNA. He fears that such creatures would be nearly human but created for and sold into scientific slavery...
Americans first developed stun technology in the early 1970s as a nonlethal way for police to incapacitate violent criminals. Shaped like small flashlights or cellular phones and powered by store-bought batteries, stun rods deliver a series of millisecond-long shocks that cause muscles to contract, leaving the victim writhing and twitching on the ground. In the U.S., for example, Nova Products Inc., in Cookeville, Tenn., sells a Police Special to law agencies that delivers 75,000 volts from two metal tips at the end of the prod. Air Taser Inc., in Scottsdale, Ariz., manufactures an air gun that...
Critics have called Wilson a reductionist, a determinist and worse. He answers his detractors as if they were tenured Neanderthals, stunted by ideology and ignorant of the molecular and cellular events responsible for the genetic evolution of human nature. Freudians, Marxists and literary deconstructionists all fail to meet Wilson's rigorous standards of proof. His advice to the politicians of diversity: "For best results, cultivate individuals, not groups...
...interest in music was triggered at theearly age of 6 when he learned to play harmonica,a skill he still incorporates in his routine.Under the influence of his father, a "failedHollywood singer," Kerr suppressed his musicalinclinations to pursue a more conventional career,working at AT&T and a cellular communicationscompany. However, his passion bubbled under thesurface, until he finally decided to abandoncorporate life in favor of his true calling in1993...