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...absent from most normal cells. If cancer researchers can find a way to deactivate this enzyme, known as telomerase, they may at last have the magic bullet they have long been seeking. Equally tantalizing was the article published in Science by molecular biologist Alexander Kamb and his colleagues at Myriad Genetics, a Salt Lake City, Utah, biotech firm. A majority of cancer cells, they found, lack functioning copies of a gene that serves as a circuit breaker and shuts down the abnormal cell growth that causes malignancy. Already Kamb is dreaming up ways to fix this seemingly simple glitch...
Angiogenesis is the harbinger of metastasis. The same vessels that feed the tumor also provide it with avenues of escape. Not all the myriad cells shed by tumors survive the turbulent voyage through the bloodstream, notes experimental oncologist Ann Chambers of the London Regional Cancer Centre in Ontario. But those that do eventually slip through blood-vessel walls with ease. Using a video camera attached to a microscopic lens, Chambers has watched in wonder as melanoma and breast-cancer cells, injected into mice, become lodged in capillary walls, then crawl out into the liver. Three days later, her camera resolves...
...piece identifies a myriad of problems that currently beset Yale--including physical decay of the campus buildings and facilities, the deadly urban environment of New Haven and a faculty that is "gradually but surely losing its luster...
...only did Weld, a classics concentrator, excel in academics, he also participated in a myriad of extracurricular and social campus activities...
...movie. To their credit, the adapters have tried to follow Andersen's tale quite closely, paying attention to such details as Thumbelina's walnut-shell bed. However, because of their effort to incorporate everything as well as adding their own touches, the audience never "gets to know" the myriad of characters who traipse across the screen. Thumbelina herself seems unable to stay focused for more than a couple of seconds, and can't seem to decide whether she wants to go home, find Cornelius, or run away and join a singing troupe. This confusion is not aided by the fact...