Word: regrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rogaine is slumping behind that of Merck?s Propecia - the market?s other, more powerful anti-baldness drug. It seems that in the course of wooing balding men, Pharmacia & Upjohn has tripped over its own advertising claims: The Rogaine web site boasts that the product is ?medically proven to regrow hair,? while following pages back away from such strong language, focusing instead on various caveats to be kept in mind by prospective users: Some men may experience only slowed hair loss, and others may experience nothing but a thinning wallet. Once you get past the initial fanfare of optimism...
WASHINGTON: Call it Rogaine without the greasy mess. Scientists at pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. told the FDA today they can regrow hair on a barren pate ? with a pill...
...doesn't even happen in amphibians, those wondrously regenerative little creatures, some of which can regrow a cut-off limb or tail. Try to grow an organism from a frog cell, and what do you get? You get, to quote biologist Colin Stewart, "embryos rather ignominiously dying (croaking!) around the tadpole stage...
...growth. These are present in the central nervous systems of mammals but not in fish or salamanders, which are capable of regenerating damaged spinal cords. By blocking these inhibitory proteins with antibodies, Martin Schwab, of the University of Zurich's Institute for Brain Research, has discovered that he can regrow severed nerves in rats. The results are even better when the animals also receive nerve growth factors. "The question," says Schwab, "is whether the restored nerves are functionally meaningful" -- a matter he is studying...
...here, they think they are going to suffer if they see a man on horseback," says Day. "We want to show them that we are not the enemy." Out of the corrals, the mustangs are rotated to one of twelve pastures, then moved periodically to allow the grass to regrow. "I'm a grass specialist," Day explains. "Though some people have romantic notions of the operation, I have to look at it as cash flow. It has to make financial sense." This year potential profits evaporated in the worst drought in memory...