Word: keying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After Mitch Henderson graduated in 1998, Princeton did not have a true point guard last season, and it was often Young who handled the ball at the top of the key...
...year later, he joined GWU's Colonial Cabinet--the university's equivalent of Harvard's Crimson Key...
Harvard has focused on its defensive strategies with its changed roster. The team is much smaller in size this year and must fight aggressively for key rebounds...
...target is a rogue protein known as beta amyloid, which forms the plaques that fill the brain's memory centers; just two weeks ago scientists identified one of the enzymes that are key to its formation. Another is an abnormal variant of the tau protein, which is thought to clutter the interiors of nerve cells with threadlike tangles. Over the coming years, as a new generation of Alzheimer's drugs enters the clinical pipeline, the arguments that rage today over which is more important, beta amyloid or tau, may be resolved. Kosik suspects that both may be critical...
...experiment at Cornell's Weill Medical College, though, may hint at a real baldness cure. The key is a gene known as SHH. In embryos SHH controls brain development, but in mature animals--including humans--it governs natural on-off cycles of hair growth. And sure enough, when scientists inserted SHH into mouse hair follicles (using a common cold virus as their splicing tool), the dozing follicles woke up and performed...