Word: humaneness
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...human body has so many millions of cells that when things go awry in one, it's best to kill off the offender...
Scores of chemicals participate in the intricate web of interactions that control cell suicide. Fifty percent of all human cancers cause defects in one, the drably named p53. Without this protein, cells have trouble killing themselves to save the body from cancer...
Perhaps America's meaning might be sought in a presidential campaign? Can the study of human culture learn much by contemplating Al Gore and George W. Bush in the final days of their political combat across America...
Carlsson's mice, in other words, resembled human patients with Parkinson's disease--and L-dopa, the dopamine-boosting compound he used to restore normality to the mice, soon emerged as the frontline treatment for Parkinson...
...billion Approximate number of units, or "letters," in the genome of a human being...