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Hershey-Chase experiment
An extraordinarily important experiment in 1952 that helped to convince the world that DNA was the genetic material. Alfred Hershey (1908-1997) and his assistant Martha Chase (1923-2003) at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory showed that the…
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- Skeleton The skeleton is composed of bones and is the framework of the body
- Syndrome, Shprintzen See: Velocardiofacial syndrome
- RANTES A cytokine that is a member of the interleukin-8 superfamily of cytokines. RANTES is a protein. It is a…
- Fear of children An abnormal and persistent fear of babies and children. Sufferers experience anxiety even though they realize…
- Epigenetics 1. The study of heritable changes in gene function that occur without a change in the sequence of the DNA…
- Gleason score A grading system for prostate carcinoma devised by Dr. Donald Gleason in 1977 as a method for predicting the…
- Medicine, geriatric The branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease in older people and…
- Zygote intrafallopian transfer (ZIFT) A technique in which a woman's egg is fertilized outside the body, then implanted in one of her fallopian…
- Avulse To separate or tear away a body part, as from an accident or surgery. While playing football, he avulsed a…
- Paterson-Kelly syndrome See: Plummer-Vinson syndrome
- Polle syndrome The Munchhausen syndrome by proxy. Polle was the fictional Baron Munchausen's only child and died at a year…