Word: development
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...research thesis you really develop the project together with your mentor, but you're expected to execute it and really elaborate on the plans," he says...
Seth, who is also concentrating in the biochemical sciences, is conducting research to develop a method to control specific gene therapies...
...same time, the drugs' manufacturers and distributors, Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, told physicians to stop prescribing them and took the dramatic step of pulling both medications from the market. The reason for such haste: new evidence had revealed that as many as 30% of Redux and fen/phen users could develop abnormalities in the shape of their heart valves--changes that could eventually lead to serious cardiac weakness and perhaps even death...
Another line of investigation revealed that serotonin may play a role in sleep. Destroy the raphe nuclei in cats, and they develop permanent and total insomnia. Give the wakeful cats a shot of serotonin, and they immediately go to sleep. In humans the amino acid L-tryptophan, which is converted to serotonin in the brain, is sometimes used as a sleeping pill. (A bad batch of L-tryptophan killed several people in the late 1980s and effectively killed the craze.) In another experiment, researchers discovered that when they stimulated raphe cells to release extra serotonin not in the brain...
Genetic research is rapidly discovering all sorts of creepy information about the future in our genes, such as who is likely to develop Alzheimer's. These predictions are widely regarded as the apple of knowledge, which we might be better off not tasting. There is a general feeling that it is wrong for a person's life chances to be determined by a test tube of blood. According to this reasoning, the only issue for public policy is what to do about it. Forbid or discourage genetic tests? Strict rules about what they may or may not be used...