Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brother's cut-rate encyclopedia, suspiciously slim volumes that I would ransack for sixth-grade book report roughage, featured an innovative learning tool under the entry on the Human Body: seven consecutive pages of transparencies, each devoted to a different organic system. Page 1's skin'n'hair'n'nails fit neatly over Page 2's spindly circulation road map which in turn lay on Page 3's inexplicably adipose-yellow GI tracts or Halloween skeleton man, and so on. At a glance, you saw and saw through man instantly, as through, yes, X-ray specs, a three-dimensional simultaneity...
This week, doctors will begin testing endostatin, a cancer-fighting drug developed from Folkman's research, on human beings for the first time...
Ringler said the first phase of the study will take 9 to 12 months. Final, complete approval for human use will take years, he said...
...Only five to 10 percent of drugs survive human testing," Corey said. "Of those, one in five will turn out to be successful drugs...
...come to a close, scientists have an unthinkable command over the human genome. Years of intense study have made it possible for us to identify the genetic bases for diseases once thought incurable. Already, genetic tests for some 490 diseases are available. Effort applied to research is finally translating into practical benefit for individuals...