Word: turned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There is very little that you can turn around in two years," she says...
...true audience for our appeal is not a technical legal committee, but the Harvard Faculty and the broader Harvard University Community. The true basis of our appeal is not to technical misapplication of rule, but to standards of justice and fair play. The internal procedural route may indeed turn out to be as much sham as was Peter's ad hoc committee process, but this, if it happens, will be demonstrated openly on the record of the Berkman Center and will only further strengthen our appeal...
...true that just about every cell in the body has the instructions to make a complete human, most of those instructions are inactivated, and with good reason: the last thing you want is for your brain cells to start churning out stomach acid or your nose to turn into a kidney. The only time cells truly have the potential to turn into any and all body parts is very early in a pregnancy, when so-called stem cells haven't begun to specialize...
...Menlo Park, Calif., activated the enzyme telomerase, extended the telomeres and lengthened the life-span of cells in culture by at least 20 divisions past the Hayflick limit. In November, Geron scored another first by reconstituting the telomeres of embryonic stem cells, which are renowned for their ability to turn into any type of cell, making it theoretically possible to rejuvenate parts of any organ with a simple injection...
...yeast, to the complexities of the human brain. All this wonderful biological frenzy was unimaginable when I first entered the world of genetics. In 1948, biology was an all too descriptive discipline near the bottom of science's totem pole, with physics at its top. By then Einstein's turn-of-the-century ideas about the interconversion of matter and energy had been transformed into the powers of the atom. If not held in check, the weapons they made possible might well destroy the very fabric of civilized human life. So physicists of the late 1940s were simultaneously revered...