Word: lifton
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Lalouel and other researchers, including Medical School Assistant Professor of Medicine Dr. Richard P. Lifton, examined DNA of women in Utah and Japan who had been diagnosed with preeclampsia. The mutation the study found lies in the gene coding for angiotensinogen, a protein involved in regulating blood pressure...
Christian Fellow of Medicine Richard P. Lifton and Associate Professor of Medicine Robert G. Dluhy '62, both affiliated with the endocrinology department at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and other workers have released a ground-breaking study that identified the first abnormal gene that causes high blood pressure...
...religion: the former is unconstitutional; the latter is not," declared the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, the Christian Legal Society, the National Association of Evangelicals and the National Council of Churches in a joint statement. But some groups, including civil liberties organizations, were much less sanguine. Warned Robert Lifton, president of the American Jewish Congress: "The decision will open up the nation's public high schools to proselytizing by organized student religious clubs and will ultimately result in religious divisiveness...