Word: limbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...research is very important for understanding certain aspects of limb development," said Clifford J. Tabin, assistant professor of genetics at the Medical School and the principal author of one the three papers that appeared in Cell describing the gene with the curious name...
Scientists have long known that the posterior, or bottom, portion of the limb bud is important in signalling for developmental patterning. The group's work "demonstrated that the Sonic hedgehog gene encodes the key substance that makes the bottom of the limb bud so special," Tabin said...
...aimed higher. But mostly we see two eyeholes burning through the mask of civility to reveal raging helplessness -- until Ada finds hope in passion. Then she must face the prospects of Flora's betrayal, Stewart's rage, the loss of the piano, the sacrifice of limb and life...
...being Harvard students, they were willing to risk life and limb--and those of hapless bystanders as well--for that small difference between a B+ and an A- (or for the less fortunate...
...failure that kept the industry locked in the Beta-versus-VHS stage. When nobody appeared interested in building the machine of his dreams, he set out to build it himself. He kept thinking, he says, of an old New Yorker cartoon showing two vultures sitting glumly on a limb. "I'm sick and tired of waiting," one says to the other. "Let's go kill something...