Word: experimention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dance spoke of the Tuskegee experiment, in which 412 black men remained untreated for syphilis from 1932-72, even after penicillin was widely used as a cure, as part of a government experiment.
Stephen Thomas, a professor at Emory University, said the lasting effects of the Tuskegee experiment are real. The effects are visible "when black folks come in late for necessary treatment or don't take medicine, even in the face of treatment that works," he said.
The Tuskegee experiment has become a metaphor and code word for the mistreatment of black people in the medical profession, Thomas said.
In 1992 Snyder announced in print that his lab had removed stemlike cells from mouse brains and had grown them in a culture. Snyder then teamed up with Dr. Jeff Macklis, a colleague at Harvard Medical School who had engineered a strain of mouse whose neurons died off in a...
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