Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...researchers studying aging--as well as for the rest of the human population, getting inexorably older and feeling none too happy about it--the rules have always been simple: organisms are born, they live a more or less prescribed number of years and they die. If you watch your weight, eat right and get plenty of exercise, you can perhaps negotiate the terms a bit, squeezing out a bit more time here and there. But tripling life-spans? Quadrupling life-spans? Eliminating the very idea of life-spans? Not an option...
Although he made history when he discovered the limits on cell replication in the lab, Hayflick left a question unanswered: why the cells die. In the years following his work, biologists mapping human chromosomes looked for a gene that enforced cellular mortality, but found nothing. One thing that did catch their eyes, however, was a small area at the tip of chromosomes that had no discernible purpose. Dubbed a telomere, the sequence of nucleic acids did not appear to code for any traits. Instead it resembled nothing so much as the plastic cuff at the end of a shoelace that...
...Game today, thousands of screaming fans will fill Harvard Stadium to root for the Crimson. But the most die-hard, hoarse-voiced fans may not be the students, but Harvard officials and faculty members who have been cheering on the football team for decades...
Brown wouldn't die as it tied it all up at 10 and thus sent the game into the whirlwind second overtime where Harvard found the end of its rope...
...Simple blood tests can identify which patients with acute chest pain are likely to die from a heart attack. The tests detect proteins called cardiac troponins that are released by damaged heart muscle. Results are available in minutes, allowing doctors time to intervene...