Word: humanization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...first oncogene known to exist inside animal and human cells was discovered in 1976 by Drs. J. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus of the University of California at San Francisco. Since then, scientists have found more than 50, some of which appear to be more important than others in human cancers. Mutations in the RAS oncogene, for instance, are believed to play a role in a majority of pancreatic and colon cancers, and some lung cancers as well. Mutations in other oncogenes have been linked to leukemia and the most lethal forms of breast and ovarian cancer...
...take long to track down the source of the infection. Laboratory tests revealed that it is a strain of morbilli, the same type of virus -- similar to the cause of canine distemper and human measles -- that killed some 20,000 North Sea seals in 1988. While viral epidemics are part of the natural ecology of the sea, some scientists think this outbreak was aggravated by man-made pollution. Autopsies on the mammals show their tissues are contaminated with metals and the toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCPs). The chemicals may have weakened the dolphins' immune systems, making the animals more vulnerable...
...think human beings are inherently racist...
Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis W. Sullivan was greeted yesterday by campus gay and lesbian groups quietly protesting his appearance at a Dunster House dinner sponsored by the Harvard Foundation...
...AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP) in past visits to the College, although the Boston-based chapter of the group was not present at last night's dinner. ACT-UP has demanded that Sullivan use his influence to relax immigration laws to allow individuals infected with the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus into the country...