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Word: stringner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
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Carefully examining the white blood cells of 48 healthy people and three leukemia patients, Gallo and two colleagues−Stringner S. Yang and Robert C. Ting of the Bionetics Research Laboratories−discovered a small but possibly critical difference. The white cells of the leukemia victims showed the presence of an enzyme known as RNA-dependent DNA polymerase; the cells of the normal people did not. The presence of the enzyme suggested that it may play a key role in the development of the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Finding a Cancer Clue | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

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