Word: processing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student then researches what types of laws affected that family member and presents his or her findings to the class, in the process learning about interviewing skills, speaking skills, political science, structure of government, economics, and his or her own family...
Gene therapy and gene-based drugs are two ways we could benefit from our growing mastery of genetic science. But there will be others as well, including new kinds of vaccines, new sources of transplant tissue, even techniques doctors may someday use to stave off the aging process. Here are just a few of the remarkable therapies on the cutting edge of genetic research that could make their way into mainstream medicine in the coming years...
...incredibly difficult, but last fall scientists at the University of Wisconsin managed to isolate stem cells and get them to grow into neural, gut, muscle and bone cells. The process still can't be controlled, and may have unforeseen limitations. But if efforts to understand and master stem-cell development prove successful, doctors will have a therapeutic tool of incredible power...
Eight years ago, scientists discovered that the tips of chromosomes in tissue cells shorten each time the cells replicate--until a point is reached where the cells stop dividing altogether. That point, called the Hayflick limit, comes after about 50 replications, and may be at the heart of the process we call aging...
...Lady's seemingly superhuman stoicism: "She is a very sensitive person. But she is able not to overemotionalize it...She doesn't go into one of these horribly overwrought kinds of tizzies." Adds Mom: "That's one thing I never did, either." Sheehy reports that the post-Monica healing process is far from over, quoting a source close to the couple who says Hillary has yet to forgive Bill fully. Sheehy's verdict on the marriage: If everyone is addicted to something, as the President has said, "Hillary's addiction is Bill. He is her only rebellion, the one thing...