Word: development
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cells would not have to grow into a fetus, however. The addition of powerful growth factors could ensure that the clones develop only into specialized cells and tissue. For the leukemia patient, for example, the cloned cells could provide an infusion of fresh bone marrow, and for the burn victim, grafts of brand-new skin. Unlike cells from an unrelated donor, these cloned cells would incur no danger of rejection; patients would be spared the need to take powerful drugs to suppress the immune system. "Given its potential benefit," says Dr. Robert Winston, a fertility expert at London's Hammersmith...
Director of University Health Services Dr. David S. Rosenthal 59 said in an interview earlier this year that Harvard students are no exception. "A lot of people come on drugs to Harvard," Rosenthal says. "They have a fever, they have antibiotics. They develop resistance to antibiotics...
...When I came here twenty years ago there were two [a capella] groups and now there are about twelve," says Jameson C. Marvin, director of choral activities. "The growth started with the Din and Tonics, but it was around eight years ago when other groups really began to develop...
...Methods of paper distribution will change. With increased personalization of newspapers, distribution will become more costly. Newsprint papers will probably still exist and individual copies will still be sold at central locations. However, personalized newspapers sent electronically to households and printed within the home will develop. Startup services like InfoBeat and Point-Cast will work with and compete with major-metro dailies to provide such services...
...sounds like something from the Twilight Zone or The X-Files. Working to unlock the secrets of life and death, the heroes in this tale develop a powerful enzyme with the potential to rejuvenate the human body's aging tissues. But this is no sci-fi fantasy. It is an experiment sponsored by the National Institute on Aging and the Geron biotech company of Menlo Park, Calif., and a report on the research appeared in last week's issue of the prestigious journal Science. Not surprisingly, when word of the study first hit Wall Street, Geron's share price jumped...