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Francis Bacon described a useless person as a vessel that travels the sea and leaves no trace. May we all--Birkenstocks and Guccis--get off the boat and into careers and callings that will make a difference...
...also reported finding two proteins, angiostatin and endostatin, that stop blood vessel growth in mice--thus starving the cancer--without any observed side effects...
...computer and kid existed in a golden age, a time when the machine was available to us unconcealed, stripped to its component parts, when adults barely understood what we were doing...for the Atari generation the evolution of the machine briefly matched that of our adolescent selves, becoming a vessel and partner, a coconspirator in our mutual coming...
...known forms of PKC has been found to be "preferentially activated by diabetes and high glucose levels," King says, "[and] a high glucose level is thought to be the main cause of blood vessel problems in the heart, kidney and eye in diabetic patients...
...years ago, King began to design an inhibitor to prevent this form of PKC from constricting blood flow and causing vessel leakage in the retina...