Word: organismic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the researchers are skeptical about any immediate medical applications, there is little doubt that the new technique for gene transfer will shed some light on certain inherited disorders. "In a sense," says Palmiter, "the big mice are models of pituitary giantism in humans." It may also help scientists unravel...
The University of Pennsylvania has been the most successful of the leading universities at implementing a major called "The Biological Basis of Behavior." It started out with 49 students in 1979 and currently has over 170, making it the third largest major in the school. Brown University also has a...
Until the 18th century, says Sennett, such authority was accepted as a natural consequence of an inherent inequality among men. When the American and French revolutions outlawed that inequality, they undermined all authority, making it seem shameful to take orders. New techniques had to be devised. Sennett skillfully traces the...
Blade Runner, like its setting, is a beautiful, deadly organism that devours life; and Ford, the cockily engaging Star Warrior of Raiders of the Lost Ark, allows his heroic stature to shrivel inside it. In comparison, Hauer's silver-haired superman is more human than human, and finally more...
Like Schopenhauer, Zorn comes to believe that disease is the will speaking through the body. Cancer is thus a single illness that manifests itself both physically and psychologically. Like medieval physicians, who thought that health was a balance of humors, he maintains that well-being is not a quality per...