Word: petry
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made you special, of course. As a tiny transparent worm measuring a millimeter from tip to tail, you would be nearly invisible to the naked eye. Nor would it be the way you spent your time. Moving little and eating less, you would pass all your days inside a Petri dish, resting atop a bed of nutrient...
...find out, Hayflick harvested cells from fetal tissue and transferred them to a Petri dish. Freed from the responsibility of doing anything to keep a larger organism alive, the cells did the only other thing they knew how to do: divide. Shortly after they were placed in culture, they doubled their number. Then they doubled the doubling. The cycle repeated itself about 100 times, until all at once it stopped. From then on, the cells did something a lot like aging. They consumed less food; their membranes deteriorated; and the culture as a whole languished. Hayflick repeated the experiment...
...world greeted the birth of Louise Joy Brown on July 25, 1978, with fanfare fit for a princess. Many hailed her as a technological godsend, dubbing her the "Baby of the Century." However, theologians and some scientists sounded ethical alarms. Others questioned whether the girl conceived in a petri dish could ever lead a normal life. The answer? Almost. According to London's Daily Mail, Brown works in a burger joint and is studying to be a school nurse--but is reportedly buoyed by a trust fund of earnings from TV projects and the book written by her parents. Brown...
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wild was sight-reading by age six, his fluid technique already a source of wonder. As a teenage student of the formidable Egon Petri (a tough, intellectual pianist renowned for his sturdy Liszt and penetrating Beethoven performances), Wild was already a concert-hall veteran, a kind of young American version of Vladimir Horowitz. In 1942, the legendary Arturo Toscanini invited him to play Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the NBC Symphony. Wild remains the only American soloist ever to play under the fiery Italian maestro...
...Like many others, he understood the power of new molecular and cellular methods for dissecting viral functions," Varmus told the Harvard Gazette. "But unlike most others, he retained a deep appreciation for the fact that viruses infect whole organisms, not just cells in petri dishes, and that these infection cause human suffering and death...