Word: suppressible
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...yourself would like to be doing.” The actualization of the common yet rarely followed impulses of middle-class professionals drives a majority of the tales in A Multitude of Sins. Ford reveals his take on the American subconscious by delineating the desires we most often suppress...
...dosing a cell with telomerase. Once you immortalize the cell, it will start to divide indefinitely--just the thing cancer cells do to such destructive effect. In a recent, unrelated study that hints at the problem, scientists found that an enzyme known as P53 that has the power to suppress tumors may also shorten life expectancy. As for genetic manipulation, it is theoretically possible to re-engineer senescence genes or introduce proteins that block their operation, but with what could be thousands of genes involved in aging, that may be as far beyond biologists as building a starship is beyond...
...easily bred and whose physiology is similar to ours. But pig biology is different enough from human biology that rejection, a surmountable problem in human-to-human transplants, is disastrous in so-called xenotransplants. (Humans can receive pigs' heart valves and other tissues because they are treated to suppress the immune problem. That doesn't work for whole organs...
...pursue its ends, and some of the separatists were trained in Afghanistan. However, China’s current crackdown has led to harsh punishments for peaceful expressions of dissent, including preaching Islam or teaching others its tenets outside of government control. Amnesty International reports that a new effort to suppress “terrorist and separatist” movements in the Xinjiang region has in fact taken its greatest toll—in widespread detention, imprisonment and torture—on individuals not involved in the violence...
...added that attempting to suppress fundamentalism is counterproductive, as it confirms the fundamentalists’ fears that they are being attacked by modern society...