Cancer cells have a lot of other things that are really wrong with them, and we should never forget that these are cells that have become deaf to all the signals that the body sends out, such as you can multiply a certain amount, you can be in a certain place in the body, where to stay, where to move, and so on.
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SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE THE BUCCAL CELL SMEAR TEST (EXATest) Using cells gently scraped from an area in the mouth between th... CAROLYN DEAN You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers... JOSEPH CAMPBELL We thought we could mimic some aspects of these special living spaces in synthetic scaffolds that de... DAVID MOONEY The concept of the tripartite nexus also gives us insight into how to develop novel drugs to save ce... DOUGLAS GREEN The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER The drugs that are being developed are being developed to target specific protein or enzyme systems ... DAVID GREENWALD Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER It turns out that the very genes that turn on in cancer cells perform vital functions in normal cell... SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY There are a hundred trillion cells in the human body, and every single one of the cells of my body l... CASSANDRA CLARE We found that the proliferation rates in certain types of cancer cells was inhibited by 80 percent. BIN YE Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... DADA BHAGWAN Like we handle antibodies against foreign proteins and we only get viruses like measles and chicken ... DAVID GREENWALD We speculate that our brains can compensate for up to a 60 percent loss of pre-Boetzinger cells, but... JACK FELDMAN Cancer essentially lives in us and becomes activated at some point, and then cells begin to psychoti... EVE ENSLER What we do is also cultivate a so-called connections business, where you really have to know a lot o... DIETER KOSSLICK And because God has entrusted you with such riches, you can use these resources to make a profound d... CRAIG GROESCHEL When you connect to life, life begins to speak to you in a vibrant way, to the cells in your body, t... TONY SAMARA Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER Oakland, by far, is really gorgeous; it still has these pockets that are really dangerous. Certain t... MAHERSHALA ALI You cannot bring in props-if you are filming in a house, you use the furniture and props that are pr... LARS VON TRIER I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in can... HAROLD E. VARMUS I'm afraid we have become a nation of plodders, who feel that all problems can be found in books and... CLARENCE LINDER One of the best things your significant other can say to you is that they appreciate you and certain... LATOYA J. 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KENNETH LUX One of the longstanding problems in medicine is how to cure cancer without harming normal body tissu... HONGJIE DAI That's probably fair to say that there is a certain amount of pressure to deliver your next role... MICHAEL TRUCCO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't... CRAIG GROESCHEL Growing up is never straight forward. There are moments when everything is fine, and other mome... ALDEN NOWLAN We have the capacity to become a unique and special person unlike any other. Draw on your inner reso... ANGIE KARAN Where do you stage? Where do you go? You have to have communications, you have to have electricity, ... JAMES CARAFANO That a universe exists within every human being. That to the blood cells and organs in your body, yo... PETER TIERYAS In this plant, we are able to drive the chassis into place so that a bus body can be mounted in plac... ANTHONY GOFF I get it now, our body is made up of cells and cells are meant to keep something from leaving. Which... ANDONI GARCIA We want to understand how stem cells make this decision to differentiate or stay stem cells. What si... HARVEY LODISH Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur th... WILLIAM JAMES Just by looking at the data and studying it and realizing that there are certain characteristics and... DAVE WINKER I have siblings. And there are certain things I know that I can push their buttons. And they know th... CATHERINE ZETA-JONES We have an awful lot of assumptions that these numbers hold a certain amount of magic, when they rea... ALAN YOUNG It's an automated process using a smaller needle. It takes the blood out of the body and puts it in ... ED DOWNEY Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. We believe that AAV-2 recognizes that the cancer cells are abnormal and destroys them. This suggests... CRAIG MEYERS Let's teach that loving isn't always loving. Like when you loved the hamster so much that it died. S... DEBORAH AINSLIE When you look at cells that don't yet have a specific function – aren't differentiated, compared t... SOPHIE LELIèVRE In AP Bio, I learned that the cells in our body are replaced every seven years, which means that one... ROBYN SCHNEIDER It is a long journey, not just as a writer, but as a human being. Take nothing and no one for grante... C.K. WEBB The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. S... EARTHA KITT This decision, it was something that was hard for both of us, but we both realized that this was the... DEAN GOLDFINE In cancer we're talking about understanding the process by which these cells malfunction, and hopefu... DR. GENEROSA GRANA Body acceptance means, as much as possible, approving of and loving your body, despite its “imperf... GOLDA PORETSKY Dr. Alt's discoveries have led to a greater understanding of the ways that cancers of immune cells d... MARSHALL LICHTMAN The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just... LEMONY SNICKET if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Most of our brain cells are glial cells, once thought to be mere support cells, but now understood a... THOMAS R. INSEL If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the un... DEEPAK CHOPRA I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL Most of these people that are in these cells, 23 hours a day, are going to eventually be released, .... DAVID LEVIN We are trying to set up a budget that you can address, that you can look at and see where things are... MANAGER HENRY DURANT When we turn the body into human capital, the political consequences of the body disappear. Hands th... KATRINE MARçAL the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In a hotel named body, a Vagus nerve is waiter, who takes order from microbiomes in gut and relays t... DR HITESH C SHETH What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o... CHRISTINA ENGELA Just looking at society as a whole, there are a lot of different things that we are not doing as a g... WILL SHIELDS I suppose the more established one gets, you have what's called a reputation, and so you want to... CATE BLANCHETT That?s the main thing -- staying healthy and staying on the field and helping your team win some gam... DEION BRANCH We also have our own library, because sometimes seniors forget about taking books back and they have... CAROLYN COATES There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a ... HELEN MACDONALD But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be swayed or talked... STONE GOSSARD Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT If you are out with say five of your friends and four of you smoke, and you are driving around town ... 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The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a var... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN As maize became important for human food worldwide, modern agricultural research on maize breeding c... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN Observational studies show that exercise, nutritional supplements and reducing psychological stress ... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN I chose biochemistry as my major and graduated after 4 years with an Honours degree in Biochemistry.... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN Ageing is so many different things, and cells being able to self-renew is part of the picture but no... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN Telomeres are the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes in cells. Chromosomes carry the genetic... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN One characteristic aspect of ageing is the increased susceptibility to disease, particularly age-rel... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to ... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN For me, arguably the story of telomeres and telomerase began thousands of years ago, in the cornfiel... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN This enzyme, called telomerase, slows the rate at which telomeres degrade, and research indicates th... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN In my early work, our molecular views of telomeres were first focused on the DNA. ELIZABETH BLACKBURN Exercise mitigates the effects of stress - and stress, we know, shortens telomeres. In fact, early s... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN Challenges in medicine are moving from 'Treat the symptoms after the house is on fire' to ... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so o... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN The goal is to learn more about telomere length and other markers of ageing, how best to measure the... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN The conservative statement is that telomere length is a biomarker, but it's probably not passive... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN Medicine has been successful by treating diseases in a very specific way once the damage is done. Bu... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN Studying organisms at a molecular level was totally compelling because it was moving from being a na... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN I've only actively promoted what we always hope is good science. ELIZABETH BLACKBURN Being senior enough in the field, having enough solidity, I don't feel afraid of being marginali... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN If we think of our chromosomes - they carry our genetic material - as being like shoelaces, I work o... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN If a test showed you had telomere shortening, it would be a red flag suggesting you should take a lo... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN In 2004, results from a study that I worked on with colleagues at the University of California, San ... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN We're collecting about 100,000 telomere lengths in saliva samples and then looking at how those ... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN We're involved in a very large study that's federally funded and being done with Kaiser Perm... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN Basically, when you look at different types of cells, such as fibroblasts, which form connective tis... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN At Cambridge, there was a completely unintimidating culture, and there were no class divisions among... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN No one ever said, 'Be a doctor.' But because so many members of my extended family - aunts, ... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN We think there are lifestyle factors that boost telomerase naturally. ELIZABETH BLACKBURN I was using very unconventional methods to sequence the telemetric DNA, originally. ELIZABETH BLACKBURN I spent my first 4 years living in the tiny town of Snug, by the sea near Hobart. Curious about anim... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN Every new rule, mandate, and regulatory edict is one more obstacle that small business owners, entre... MARSHA BLACKBURN Small business owners that are female, that is their number one problem, is access to capital. MARSHA BLACKBURN Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we've fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with t... MARSHA BLACKBURN Awake, thou wintry earth--
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BRENDA BLACKBURN We have lost some elements to the river. We just don't know what the water might do. BOB BLACKBURN It's more than just Oklahoma history. It's regional and national history. BOB BLACKBURN At this age, most of my friends have had a voice change. I probably would not be able to broadcast a... BOB BLACKBURN Wilt and Magic were not only nice to me when we did interviews, but both remembered my name. You don... BOB BLACKBURN I think we have a short window of opportunity to save parts of it. We have critical decisions to mak... BOB BLACKBURN Many women are heads of households. Many are the primary wage earners for their families. MARSHA BLACKBURN This is the first scientific contribution that the addictive pathways are deficient in the obese and... GEORGE BLACKBURN Now, 'the fiscal cliff' is a name that the media came up with, but some of us have been sayi... MARSHA BLACKBURN My first kiss was with a girlfriend. And it was at a party. 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MARSHA BLACKBURN Even the president's own Science and Technology Office head Mister Holdren says no one single we... MARSHA BLACKBURN [Blackburn thinks the main difference between his generation and the company's older employees lies ... ROBERT BLACKBURN Approximately 2.5 to 3 hours later I received another telephone call from the Nursing Staff stating ... ROBERT BLACKBURN Obesity is not gluttony, GEORGE BLACKBURN I'm just going to get some logs... TONY BLACKBURN You might have noticed Harry Reid is a little upset with Americans for Prosperity. Let me tell you, ... MARSHA BLACKBURN We're confident that we'll continue to grow globally and at a multiple to the market. JESS BLACKBURN It's definitely unusual. We heard about that from a lot of people. They congratulated us. Usually, y... CHASE BLACKBURN Awake, thou wintry earth -
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CHASE BLACKBURN I went head-to-head with him most of the game, playing all the special teams. He gave me a little en... CHASE BLACKBURN one of the most tragic, costly and preventable public health problems facing this country today. GEORGE BLACKBURN You can't miss it with all the pictures we have hanging on the walls (at school) of our (34) state f... DUANE BLACKBURN He's wrestled in those situations so many times in tournaments, and that's something not a lot of pa... DUANE BLACKBURN We have a good nucleus of kids coming back and another solid group coming up behind them. We'll be a... DUANE BLACKBURN That's definitely something we hope works in our favor. But it's going to be a tough weekend. Five o... DUANE BLACKBURN And as for St. Edward's B team, a lot of Division I teams around here used to see them four or five ... DUANE BLACKBURN It's getting harder and harder to get teams to commit to a two-day tournament. Their kids -- especia... 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CITY MANAGER RUSS BLACKBURN We're continuing to look at neighborhoods and areas that want urban services. CITY MANAGER RUSS BLACKBURN We gave people an opportunity to choose and learn more about city services. CITY MANAGER RUSS BLACKBURN The commission may direct (staff) to explain alternatives to the public and that's certainly the com... CITY MANAGER RUSS BLACKBURN We're open to others speaking, but we do want to make sure they have the full picture and they have ... CITY MANAGER RUSS BLACKBURN There are times you just can't agree. CITY MANAGER RUSS BLACKBURN Bill has done an excellent job in an interim capacity. CITY MANAGER RUSS BLACKBURN This puts us in a more reactive position than we'd like to be. CITY MANAGER RUSS BLACKBURN We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-w... ELIZABETH ESTY The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. 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ELIZABETH FISHEL I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most repleni... ELIZABETH BERKLEY The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of w... ELIZABETH BOWEN I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road. ELIZABETH BOWEN Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. ELIZABETH BOWEN Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our heart... ELIZABETH BOWEN Education is not so important as people think. ELIZABETH BOWEN Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. ELIZABETH BOWEN Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. ELIZABETH BOWEN Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it ha... ELIZABETH BOWEN Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to ... ELIZABETH BOWEN Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. ELIZABETH BOWEN Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak. ELIZABETH BOWEN We are minor in everything but our passions. ELIZABETH BOWEN The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part ... ELIZABETH BOWEN Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. ELIZABETH BOWEN It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pock... ELIZABETH BOWEN Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. ELIZABETH BOWEN One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. ELIZABETH BOWEN Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. ELIZABETH BOWEN No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. ELIZABETH BOWEN If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to ... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER It touched me to be trusted with something terrible. ELIZABETH KOSTOVA The lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook are unparalleled natural treasures with some of the high... ELIZABETH ESTY Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. ELIZABETH DREW Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation. ELIZABETH DREW My God, I have so much bounty in my life. ELIZABETH MARVEL We have the opportunity and the responsibility to lead our country to a better and brighter future, ... ELIZABETH ESTY I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage. ELIZABETH TAYLOR It's not the having, it's the getting. ELIZABETH TAYLOR I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scrip... ELIZABETH WARREN