Word: cellular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discovery might tend toward a complacent attitude in regard to pushing forward toward the development of even more fundamental forms of treatment of Grave's disease. However, he emphasized this example in therapeutic application as a beacon in utilizing the tracer methods employing radioactive substances for the analysis of cellular function, growth, metabolism and nutrition in the body and in other organs than the thyroid. He pointed out that knowledge gained about the thyroid has already led him and others to many stimulating theories in the cancer and enzyme fields...
Terzaghi was one of three authors of an essay entitled "Shipways with Cellular Walls on a Marl Foundation...
...Biochemist Lehninger discovered that the same enzymes which oxidize carbohydrates also oxidize fat. He found out where the burning takes place, too. In the cells of the liver (where half the body's fat is oxidized) are small, granular structures called mitochondria. The mitochondria, Lehninger announced, are the cellular power plants "or stokers or burners" for the combustion...
...early drypoints had described the hollow shell of a vanished culture, and done it literally. "The important things today," he says, "are first the chaos, murder, rape and war in the world; and second, the spirit of scientific inquiry, the interest in atoms and cellular growth." He thinks his new paintings reflect a little of the science, if not of the chaos...
Pyrok was developed in Britain by Samuel Clipson, a big painting contractor. Its chief ingredient is vermiculite, a cheap mica-like mineral which, when heated, swells up to 16 times its volume like a pulled-out accordion. Vermiculite's resilience and cellular structure (mostly air) give Pyrok its lightness and strength. A special combination of lime and cement (Clipson's secret) makes the stuff stick tight...