Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there are two equally skilled employees, I would bet you that the one who is more conformist to what would be considered normal would get the job," he says...
4/29 2:55P: CUST CALLED FOR STATUS (NORMAL...
4/30 1:15P: CUST. CALLED FOR STATUS (NORMAL) - CUST IS ANXIOUS, WILL CALL AGAIN LATER. E-MAILED...
...easier to try to kill a tumor by destroying its blood supply than by attacking it directly. His reasoning was sound. Tumors are made up of rapidly dividing mutant cells that adapt quickly to almost any treatment thrown at them. Blood vessels, by contrast, are made up of normal cells that grow much more slowly and are nowhere near as difficult to outwit. Hoping to starve tumors through their supply line of nutrients, Folkman set out to find a drug that could block the construction of new blood vessels...
...also possible that the new generation of drugs emerging from the labs won't work very well, or that the much vaunted lack of major side effects will prove to be an illusion. All the enzymes and growth-factor receptors blocked by the new drugs play a role in normal cell division as well as in cancer. So disrupting them could cause harm. "Whether the therapy is going to be a major advance, a modest improvement or a disappointment is not clear," says Dr. J. Michael Bishop, molecular biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who shared...