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  • Not only have human-derived dopamine cells not perform efficiently when transplanted into animals, they have also triggered the growth of unwanted tumor-like structures.

    Hope for Stem-Cell Treatment of Parkinson's Gautam Naik 2011

  • Crucially, their approach didn't lead to tumor-like structures.

    Hope for Stem-Cell Treatment of Parkinson's Gautam Naik 2011

  • And here's where we are: The concept of “too big to fail,” rather than of fixing the system, is simply feeding and keeping alive the very tumor-like institutions that landed us in fiscal intensive care to begin with.

    They Are Too Big to WHAT? 2009

  • After the desired protrusion is achieved, the tumor-like area can be mimicked to resemble a bagel.

    Bagelheads! WTF?! 2009

  • What we need to do is force the administration to do to these tumor-like institutions -- currently hiding behind the myth they are “too big to fail” -- what they just did to GM.

    Think Globally -- But Bank Locally 2009

  • Well, to veterans of the S crisis, all of this has a Mad Hatter's tea party quality to it, and I am here to layout in the starkest terms I can what I believe will happen if Congress accommodates the desires of these tumor-like money center banks.

    They WERE Warned! 2008

  • From what I gather from the NAS report, if it were relating my cancer diagnosis, then it would be telling me that the first doctor who diagnosed my cancer was using a defective MRI machine that often showed an image that looked like a tumor mass, no matter who was being imaged – and the doctor was limiting the scans to those that produced more tumor-like images.

    NAS Panel Report « Climate Audit 2006

  • HPV has been linked to penile, anal, and head and neck cancers and a tumor-like condition of the respiratory tract.

    A Few Thoughts on the “Cervical Cancer” Vaccine and HPV Eradication 2006

  • But the other important discovery is that the tumor is actually tumor-like, rather than a lesion.

    State of the Union Douglas Kennedy 2005

  • Lives adjusted to these breaks in rhythm the way a tree adjusts to a metal fence that stands in its path of growth -- by growing around it, absorbing it, forming a tumor-like burl at the point of irritation.

    Excerpt: Winterkill by Karen Wunderman 2002

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