Word: progenitor
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Snyder and Wolfe reversed the disease's progression by transplanting immature healthy brain cells, called progenitor cells, into the enzyme-deficient brains of newborn mice. According to Snyder, the young cells matured into normal healthy cells, migrating and engrafting themselves in the brain as the mouse grew older...
Researchers therefore decided to inject neural progenitor cells into the brain ventricles, chambers filled with cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the brain...
...crux of Martin's argument revolves around the "Hamitic Myth," an interpretation of the Book of Genesis that justifies African slavery as part of a curse upon Noah's son Ham, who is supposed to be the progenitor of all Blacks...
...history, and the notion that Impressionism was a matter of innocent eyes doing sunlight with broken touches without "academic" preconceptions is strictly for the birds in the sunlit trees. What's wrong with the name Impressionism is that it suggests quick shots of fleeting things. Yet the main progenitor of New Painting was the most solid, stubborn and material painter imaginable, Gustave Courbet. A Renoir like Bather with a Terrier, 1870, could hardly exist without the example of Courbet's wardrobe nudes. Courbet was the doubting Thomas of painting, the great empiricist who wanted to verify everything by touch...
...filled with two-dollar words that actually add up. "We are going over a Niagara of psychobabble in a barrel full of holes," he complains. "We have become a country of ragged recidivists dedicated to the proposition that all parents are created equally bad and the progeny-slash- progenitor dynamic should be the landfill for all our personal shortcomings...