Word: stems
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Robertson's work focuses on early embryogenesis, using gene targeting experiments. In these experiments, embryonic "stem cells" are injected into new host embryos to test their effects on embryonic development...
Jurado, who concentrated in economics while at Harvard, was convicted under a 1989 law designed to stem the flow of illegally-earned money into the country's banking system. He and his partners were charged with laundering money on behalf of several cocaine kingpins...
...role in the development of ailments like cancer, heart or lung disease and cataracts. Many researchers are convinced that the cumulative effects of free radicals also underlie the gradual deterioration that is the hallmark of aging in all individuals, healthy as well as sick. Antioxidants, studies suggest, might help stem the damage by neutralizing free radicals. In effect they perform as cellular sheriffs, collaring the radicals and hauling them away...
Born on March 21 and dead 10 days later, Theresa Ann experienced nothing during her brief life--if life it may be called--because she was born without a cerebral cortex. The only functioning part of her brain was the portion of the brain stem which controls breathing and heartbeat...
...Florida courts refused to comply. Since her brain stem was functional, they reasoned, she was not brain dead...