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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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- I'd transferred to an alternative school that offered dream studies instead of biology, so I was taking Defler's class for high-school credit, which meant that I was sitting in a college lecture hall at sixteen with words like mitosis and kinase inhibitors flying around.†
Chpt Prol.
- Pomerat replied: With regard to your … disapproval for a wide exploration of the HeLa strain, I don't see how you can hope to inhibit progress in this direction since you released the strain so widely that it now can be purchased commercially.
Chpt 2.13inhibit = limit
- "If allowed to grow uninhibited under optimal cultural conditions, [HeLa] would have taken over the world by this time," they wrote.†
Chpt 2.22 *uninhibited = acting naturally without being overly self-consciousstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uninhibited means not and reverses the meaning of inhibited. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- So far, two courts have ruled against the patients, relying on the same logic used in the Moore case (that giving patients those rights would inhibit research, etc).
Chpt Aft. *inhibit = limit
- Experts on both sides of the debate worry that compensating patients would lead to profit-seekers inhibiting science by insisting on unrealistic financial agreements or demanding money for tissues used in noncommercial or nonprofit research.
Chpt Aft.inhibiting = limiting
- Among other things, scientists involved in the case claim that the practice of gene patenting has inhibited their research, and they aim to stop it.
Chpt Aft.inhibited = limited
Definitions:
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(1)
(inhibit as in: inhibited the growth of...) to limit the activity of someone or something
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(2)
(inhibited as in: she is shy and inhibited) unable to act naturally due to being overly self-conscious
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)