Word: shrivelling
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...brewing trade war, POSCO's exports to the U.S. could shrivel. Yet in the twisted calculus of steel politics, the company lobbying hardest for tariffs, USX-U.S. Steel, also has a stake in cheap POSCO imports. USS-POSCO, a California-based joint venture between the firms, buys most of the Korean steelmaker's hot-rolled coil imports, which the venture uses to make other products sold in the U.S. A spokesman for U.S. Steel wouldn't comment on the joint venture's viability should tariffs be imposed. But, says POSCO's Lee Chun Hwan, "[The venture] might...
...Researchers at Stanford University have harvested dendritic cells from advanced-cancer patients, exposed the cells to potent growth factors, added tumor-specific proteins to sensitize them and reintroduced the mixture into patients as a vaccine. Of 12 patients with advanced colorectal and lung cancer, two watched their tumors shrivel away, and another is still tumor free a year after receiving the vaccine...
Researchers at Stanford University have harvested dendritic cells from advanced-cancer patients, exposed the cells to potent growth factors, added tumor-specific proteins to sensitize them and reintroduced the mixture into patients as a vaccine. Of 12 patients with advanced colorectal and lung cancer, two watched their tumors shrivel away, and another is still tumor free a year after receiving the vaccine...
...enough good-quality water to meet human and environmental needs. Like so much of the earth's bounty, water is unevenly distributed. While people in some parts of the world pile up sandbags to control seasonal floods or struggle to dry out after severe storms, others either shrivel and die - like their crops and their livestock before them - or move on as environmental refugees. In Canada - which has about the same amount of water as China but less than 2.5% of its population - the resource has been labeled "blue gold." In parched Botswana, dominated by the Kalahari Desert, water...
...contrast, clearly played a critical role in the brain. In its normal form it helps support the axons--long projections that carry signals from one nerve cell to another--holding them together like ties on a railroad track. When tau goes bad and clumps into tangles, the axons shrivel up and die. The case for tau further solidified in 1998, when researchers discovered a form of dementia associated with mutations of the tau gene. People with these mutations did not develop the plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease, but at death, their brains were riddled with tangles...