Word: researching
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Just 10 days earlier, the laboratory cultures had all contained the same number of microscopic cancer cells. Now even an untutored eye could tell the difference. Globs of wildly dividing cell colonies filled half the flasks, while in the others the cells refused to multiply. Reason: a research team, led by Johns Hopkins University oncologist Bert Vogelstein, had endowed the quiescent cells with a protective device that the dividing ones lacked, in this case a normal copy of a gene that acts as a circuit breaker, shutting down growth. The scientists had found a way, at least in theory...
...least for the purpose of this new techno-thriller, his best by far since The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton accepts the charge that genetic research these days is a headlong, unregulated profit-and-glory grab by microbiologists with more skill than wisdom. Suppose, says Crichton, that a respectable paleozoologist (call him Alan Grant) begins to get increasingly detailed queries from a secretive corporate donor about what infant dinosaurs ate. Grant sends in his best guess. More questions follow, and they have a ring of urgency. What is this...
...CHIEF OF RESEARCH: Betty Satterwhite Sutter...
...best way to combat cellular aging is to postpone its effects at the molecular level. Basic research is now under way to understand the mechanisms that make human cells wear out and to try to find the genes that cause the major degenerative diseases of old age -- arthritis, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease. This work could have a double benefit: extending life expectancy and helping to make those extra years worth living. But researchers have no idea when, or if, breakthroughs will take place...
Also honored will be Roger Revelle, professor of population emeritus, who is now conducting research in La Jolla, California...