Word: destructiveness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Glivec is just one of several new therapies that work by cutting a cancer cell’s lines of communication, either preventing it from reproducing or forcing it to self-destruct. Other signal-jamming treatments use monoclonal antibodies, tiny proteins that resemble the human immune system’s own antibodies but which bind to the surface of cancer cells. New York-based ImClone Systems has an antibody called IMC-C225, now in the final phases of testing in colorectal and head and neck cancer, that acts like bubble gum stuffed in a keyhole. It prevents a specialized protein known...
After beginning the season with three wins, two losses, and a tie, Harvard is poised to rocket to a strong finish and a possible chance at the Ivy League title--or self-destruct in a fiery explosion of mediocrity...
...didn't need the offense to win the game for us," Murphy said. "We needed it not to self-destruct...
...world. Vietnam's younger generation has escaped from under the very eyes of the government, which didn't even see them going. The party's authority no longer crosses the generation gap, and a huge empty space has opened up in society for youngsters to prosper--or self-destruct. A 15-min. cell-phone call in Saigon costs the same as a single hit of heroin in one of the city's public parks...