Word: sod
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...Medical School researchers, working at the Massachusetts General Hospital, report in today's issue of Nature that they have found a gene encoding an altered form of an enzyme, called SOD, common to 13 of 18 families with histories...
...SOD is responsible for mopping up dangerous free radicals, in this case negatively charged oxygen molecules called "superoxides," which if left unchecked may lead to cell death. A similar mechanism, involving a different set of free radicals, has been implicated in Parkinson's disease...
...finding suggests that if patients' supplies of SOD can be replenished by treatment with either SOD itself or a similar protein, there may be hope for a cure...
Wright's life-span alone is astonishing: his career extended from the beginning of the Gilded Age to the last days of the American Century, from the sod house to the shopping mall. Born in rural Wisconsin to a charming, feckless musician-preacher and a high-strung, single-minded mother -- they divorced when Frank was a teenager -- Wright was inculcated with an overweening sense of his talent and destiny. Anna Wright may have been the first atelier mother: she pushed him hard to become an architect when he was still a child, providing a special set of designer-in-training...
...grew on its own. The Yardlings were all stately white guys who didn't play ultimate frisbee or football on the lawn. A bunch of Cliffies didn't dig up the middle of the Quad for a bonfire. And hundreds of tourists from Dubuque didn't kick up the sod chasing squirrels with bits of Au Bon Pain corn muffins...