Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think we have to put the personalities aside," Maher told the Chronicle. "We have a fragmented council. Some councilors don't speak to each other...
...proud that he was one of the few on that campus that pushed for civil rights when it wasn't something we took for granted," said Professor of Greek and Latin Richard F. Thomas, who worked with Marius to coach students selected to speak at Commencement...
Although most speakers discussed topics related to their theses, Park says the society welcomes all students, especially those in Eliot, to speak on whatever they wish...
...medical science has had only mixed results with brain-cell transplants. Take the treatment of Parkinson's disease, for example, a condition that is gradually depriving more than 1 million Americans of their ability to move and speak. The disease is caused by the slow deterioration of brain cells that produce dopamine, a chemical essential for the transmission of messages from the brain to the rest of the body. A decade ago, Swedish researchers started implanting dopamine-producing cells from human fetuses into the brains of Parkinson's patients. The treatment improved the mobility of many of the patients...
Gage's finding--coupled with Snyder's report that same month of stem cells in the fetal human brain--has stood neuroscience on its head, so to speak. As has the latest finding, announced last month by researchers at Princeton, that adult macaque monkeys are constantly growing new cells in the highest and most complex area of the brain, the cerebral cortex. Snyder is now flush with confidence that neuroscience will ultimately cure many, if not all, diseases of the human brain. "By the year 2020 I hope we will have an active way of treating damaged brains...