Word: tumorous
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...Gaye simply turned his back on sweet pop, soul and public concerts. Partly this was because his favorite singing partner, a pert brunette named Tammi Terrell, collapsed in his arms onstage at William and Mary College and later died of a brain tumor. Beyond that, though, he had simply grown weary of Marvin the Motown Star who, night after night, had to tell jokes, do little dance steps and "put out the grin...
...paper. Aside from polluting the land and water, the critics say, this vast consumption threatens to strip the earth of its resources. In the rhetoric of Paul Ehrlich, "America's pride in her growing population may be compared to a cancer patient's pride in his expanding tumor...
...ions, or other particles that can be made from these ions, to combat cancer, acromegaly (a rare disease in which facial features, hands and feet thicken) and Parkinson's disease. Unlike X rays and gamma rays, heavy particles do not damage healthy tissue on their way to a tumor; they do most of their deadly work only after reaching it. (Before the modification of the Bevatron, heavy ions could not be accelerated enough even to penetrate the skin.) In addition, scientists may some day create stable, superheavy elements by bombarding uranium with heavy ions. To bring this goal closer...
...women whose families had a history of the disease, six (60%) were found to harbor large numbers of the particles. Doctors are still reluctant to state flatly that these particles actually cause breast cancers in humans. They have been unable as yet to identify particles in a human tumor. But Moore has found that serum from humans who have had breast cancer can have a neutralizing effect on the mouse virus when the serum is injected into mice...
...blind" study,* conducted both in Camden and at Columbia, showed a 100% correlation between particle concentrations and the presence of an enzyme, or chemical catalyst, which is associated with viruses known to cause cancer in animals. The experiment also revealed two startling similarities between the virus-like particles and tumor-causing RNA viruses: both have the same density and both share the ability to reverse the normal order of genetic transmission. Spiegelman's and Schlom's conclusion is crucial. Normally, DNA, the double-helix master molecule, produces RNA, which carries genetic information to the cell (TIME, April...