Word: molecular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scientists, have found at least 20 neurotransmitters. Each of these chemicals has a unique molecular configuration. As a result, neurotransmitters and any of the chemicals that mimic them-work like keys in a lock. They can only fit into those sites, or receptors, on the nerves that are specifically designed to accept them...
...director of the Bio Labs, said yesterday that such funding is "unusual." University records show only three instances of private funding for research, one from UpJohn Corporation, one from Biogen, who is helping to pay for the insulin experiments of Walter F. Gilbert '53, American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology, and one from the Campbell Soup Corporation, which sponsored mushroom research earlier this decade...
...METER, according to Velona, measures the changes of resistance" within a person's body and the person's response to certain concepts or thoughts. "Everything has certain resistance," Velona said, standing over the meter. "All recollections have a molecular mass" which are registered on the E-meter and interpreted by the trained auditor. Velona said that the auditor, however, does not evaluate a person's response but "encourages a person to come to his own realizations...
...women, ranging in age from 35 to 49, are all enrolled at American University's English Language Institute. After three months of brushing up on their English, they will head for U.S. universities across the country for postgraduate study and research in physics, optical science, molecular biology, chemical engineering and other subjects...
...young anthropologist from the University of California at Santa Cruz has added new fire to the debate. Adrienne Zihlman not only supports the molecular chronology for the crucial split, but also nominates the probable common ancestor: an animal that looked, and perhaps behaved, very much like the contemporary pygmy chimp Pan paniscus...