Word: livers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another researcher, Makio Murayama of the National Institutes of Health. Murayama discovered that the sickle-cell shape is caused by an abnormal bonding between hemoglobin molecules in the red cells. Using this knowledge, Nalbandian's team decided to try urea, a waste substance produced by the normal human liver and excreted in the urine. As they knew, urea can dissolve certain types of molecular bonds. Their experiment worked: urea broke the bond between the hemoglobin molecules, halted the sickling effect, and relieved the victims' pain...
...happy I could come," I answer, but she doesn't hear or understand and walks back to the liver and the olives...
...EVEN cooler, Miami night. Cars slither up and down Collins Avenue, making those whoosh sounds that cars seem to make only when there is a beach nearby. Inside, big flower arrangements, place-cards, mounds of chicken liver, egg rolls, glasses clinking, uncles running around flashing Instamaties, loud laughter, embraces...
Died. Constantin Tsaldaris, 86, Greece's first elected Prime Minister after World War II; of liver cirrhosis; in Athens. During the Communist rebellion of 1947, he voluntarily stepped down as Premier to assist in the formation of a broad centrist coalition, but stayed on at the Foreign Ministry, where he was instrumental in bringing King George II back from exile and negotiating with the Truman Administration for the massive military and economic aid that was to end the revolt...
...energy, it was Leloir who realized in the late 1940s that there was an undiscovered missing link in these vital reactions: organic compounds called sugar nucleotides. Leloir also showed how one of the more complex body sugars, glycogen, is synthesized with the help of sugar nucleotides, stored in the liver and muscles and then made available on demand to produce simpler glucose whenever the body needs energy...