Word: poisoners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This winter's surprise hit movie offers no marquee names and no special effects, only a small cup of poison for maternal peace of mind. In The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Rebecca De Mornay plays the Nanny from Hell, who insinuates herself into the home of a trusting family only to wreak havoc on it. In the weeks after the film climbed to No. 1, earning a stunning $65 million, magazines and newspapers have scurried to find real-life examples of psycho-nannies, which in turn drove home the not-so-subtle message that women who work and leave...
Cancer-Causing Mutation May Be Due to Poison...
Consumption of a poison produced by a South African fungus may cause high rates of liver cancer found in many areas of the world, says a Harvard Medical School hepatologist...
Assistant Professor of Medicine Dr. Mehmet Ozturk and his associates at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have isolated the poison, known as aflatoxin B[1], which causes a DNA sequence mutation common to many cancers...
Strong evidence for aflatoxin's role in liver cancer appeared when researchers found that in four out of five DNA sequences examined, one amino acid, guanine, was converted to anther, thymine. The poison had previously been demonstrated to cause guanine to mutate to thymine in the liver. Hepatitis B, which is another cause of liver cancer, does not cause this same mutation...