Word: physiologist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...practice in obstetrics and gynecology after the war, he raised professional eyebrows by pioneering a newfangled fiber-optic device called a laparoscope to perform minimally invasive abdominal surgery. In 1966, to help women with blocked Fallopian tubes, a major cause of infertility, he teamed up with Edwards, a Cambridge physiologist who had developed a way to fertilize human eggs...
...specimen of Fleming's mold made its way into the hands of a team of scientists at Oxford University led by Howard Florey, an Australian-born physiologist. This team had technical talent, especially in a chemist named Ernst Boris Chain, who had fled Nazi Germany. Armed with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, these scientists made it their objective to identify and isolate substances from molds that could kill bacteria. The mission was inspired by the earlier work of Gerhard Domagk, who in 1935 showed that the injection of a simple compound, Prontosil, cured systemic streptococcal infections. This breakthrough demonstrated that...
...onset of osteoporosis (a particular problem for women), lower blood pressure, even reduce cholesterol levels. And you don't have to be in your 30s to benefit. "I started working with a 92-year-old woman after she fell and broke her ankle," says Miriam Nelson, an exercise physiologist at Tufts University and the author of Strong Women Stay Young (Bantam Books). "She now lifts 12 lbs. with each leg, and 8 to 10 lbs. with each hand. Her balance has improved significantly, and she's bowling again...
Michele N. Holbrook '82, a plant physiologist at the College, has employed several students as research assistants through the program, most recently Supinda Bunyavanich '99. Holbrook praised the partnerships, but encouraged students to investigate possible mentors outside of structured programs...
Just how this business of swapping food for time works is not entirely clear, but George Roth, molecular physiologist with the National Institute on Aging in Bethesda, Maryland, has some ideas. When animals are placed on caloric restriction, Roth explains, the first thing that happens is that their body temperature drops about 1[degree]C. Lower temperature means a less vigorous metabolism, which means less food is processed. "In order to compensate for the reduction in diet," Roth says, "the animals switch from a growth mode into what can be thought of as a survival mode. They get fewer calories...