Word: suppressers
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...another been blamed. In the beginning, of course, there were the Jews. "The whole record of the Jewish opposition to Christmas...shows the venom and directness of [their] attack," wrote automaker and notorious anti-Semite Henry Ford in 1921, citing efforts around the country to silence Christmas carolers and suppress demonstrations of religion in schools. By the 1950s, blame had shifted to the Communists. "One of the techniques now being applied by the Reds to weaken the pillar of religion in our country is the drive to take Christ out of Christmas," screamed a 1959 pamphlet (the overpunctuated title: "There...
...Kishony, a systems biologist and the third Gates grant recipient, is researching how using multiple drugs that suppress each other can surprisingly lead to more effective treatment...
...Kishony and Chait had previously hypothesized that bacteria that became resistant to two drug that were known to suppress each other would not fare as well...
...that which we take from the Middle East. Given America's checkered standing in the region, it's an alarming figure. In order to avoid being held hostage by fluctuations in the price of crude, the authors recommend developing sustainable energy infrastructures-an endeavor that will also help to suppress climate change. "The link between carbon-intensive activities and changes in the world's climate is now well established, and the consequences will be felt across the hemisphere," the authors write, noting that if "current human activity remains unchanged," the resulting "ecological shocks" could wreak havoc on Central America...
...human immune system will attack anything foreign that enters the body, including transplanted organs. That is why powerful and sometimes life-threatening drugs that suppress the immune system have always been imperative to prevent the rejection of new organs. That is, until now: the British medical journal The Lancet today lays out the first successful trachea transplant, which was also - and more importantly - the first tissue transplant to use stem cells and thus do away with immunosuppressive therapy...