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Because of its key role, p53 has been a major subject of the search for a cancer cure. In 1997, immune system researchers at a French pharmaceutical company surprised the cancer research community with their serendipitous discovery of a close cousin of p53 which they named...
Studies over the last three years have suggested that p73 is very different from its cousin. p53 is strongly expressed all over the body, but p73's expression is weak and variable. And p53 exists in only one form, but p73 seems to exist in several different forms...
...span of a few hours last Thursday, Middle East gunfighting and its bastard cousin terrorism burst back into our lives with split-screen bulletins and double-deck headlines that hammered home again both the volatility of that region and the vulnerability of the entire world. It was a reminder that the horror facing the 21st century will be the one left unresolved in the 20th: after the end of the great confrontations between shifting alliances of nation-states, we are still faced with the bloody terrors wrought by ethnic, religious and tribal hatreds...
...colleagues informed me on a cell phone that a military jeep was approaching my area. They gave me the signal: "Your cousin is coming to visit you." Immediately I jumped up and set myself in position. After five minutes, the jeep came, and when it came in range, I pressed the trigger and started shooting. I knew that I had hit my target when I saw the military ambulance arrive at the place. I could see with my eyes the wounded soldier being taken to the ambulance by his comrades...
...wants to see it. Then again, I couldn't find one person who admitted to buying Oops, I Did It Again....I'm still having nightmares about Debauchery ("I'm not surprised," chimes in a blockmate. "How could you forget that stench??")... I talked to my six-year-old cousin on the phone today. He whined about the cartoons on television these days, "They're all the same and they're all boring." I replied, "Listen, dude. When I was your age, I had to put up with 'The Snorks' and 'Jem and the Holograms'. So don't complain...