Word: normale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Liems' term was extended for just two years instead of the normal five-year period, according to Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett...
Jewett predicts that as more houses install the new system, it "will probably gravitate to a wider range of accessibility in normal working and social hours." But he says such measures are subject to the discussion of the house masters...
...drive--even at night," he said."It's made me a productive, normal person again...
...trying to craft a drug that will block the action of telomerase. "The cancer cell," explains Harley, "is already very old. If we can inhibit telomerase, we might cause the tumor to die after a few doublings." Even better, the fact that cancer cells produce telomerase and that normal cells (save for sperm) don't, says Harley, "gives us hope that we may be able to develop a drug without serious side effects...
...formation of blood vessels in a tumor through angiogenesis is another promising target for an anticancer drug -- because the process is so rare in normal cells. Clinical trials have begun on several compounds that interfere with angiogenesis. One such compound comes from a fungus that was accidentally discovered in 1989 when it contaminated cultures of endothelial cells in Judah Folkman's Harvard laboratory, dramatically curtailing their growth. This drug, says Folkman, is aimed not at curing cancer but at prolonging the period of time colonies of tumor cellsmissed by conventional therapy remain in place without spreading. "Suppose we prolong this...