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By Michael Bellomo

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Here are a few examples of terrible writing:

"A corporation referred to as Biosurface Technology....." i do not understand what university the writer graduated from yet i feel he can have easily wrote, "Biosurface expertise" and persisted along with his sentence.

"In the case of totipotent or pluripotent stem cells, there's just one position they are often found....." could not the writer have easily wrote "Totipotent or pluripotent stem cells are available in just one place....."

"The fertilized egg, that's a unmarried cellphone referred to as a zygote, starts off dividing into a number of phone with the based precision of a cine swiss clock". "Which is termed a zygote" should be eradicated and zygote might be put in parenthesis after "fertilized egg." Do swiss clocks divide? yet they're detailed? How do cells divide imprecisely? through what standard?

This writer writes like a baby every now and then; the sentence building is undesirable, words are ridiculous, and metaphors are useless. i believe this man writes for the sake of self-importance; he desires to seem clever yet turns out extra ignorant. The technological know-how is nice however the writing is an obstacle. The editors must never were good. there are various different blunders within the publication as there are in glossy writing reminiscent of using "comprise" after which using "make up", and in the related paragraph.

Effective writing calls for exactness and consistency.

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Tumefaciens bacteria. Finally, he grafted the galls to normal plant tissue and watched over the period of weeks and months while the graft took hold. To Braun’s surprise, once the grafts were in place, the cells in the crown gall swelling retuned to normal function. The gall itself did not shrink like a deflating balloon, for the cells remained where they had grown, but the cells inside again grew at normal rates and took to normal growth medium. 2 With the idea in mind that cellular states were not static, researchers in the United States and Great Britain performed a series of experiments in the 1970s by injecting a teratoma’s cells into normal mouse embryos.

Teratomas grow into ghastly, irregularly shaped balls of tissue. Extremely well developed ones look something like the encapsulated remains of an airplane crash victim who has been run through a blender. They are full of bits and pieces of what would have been a body, replete with vestigial pieces of limbs or strips of bone and ligament. Even the more common teratomas have been known to 1. The medically correct term for multiple teratoma is actually teratomata, but to avoid confusion, we’ll use the more popular form of a plural noun.

Instead, apoptosis takes place and cells slough off in strips between where the fingers will emerge from the pad-like “hand”. Only the mutations that encourage unrestricted growth and repress the genes for programmed cell death eventually lead to cancer. The word tumor can be frightening to hear, but in medical terminology it simply refers to a swelling 15965-Stem Cell Divide 5/11/06 8:20 AM Page 43 CHAPTER 4 The Ugliest Thing in Medicine 43 or lump of tissue. Through popular usage, the term has been irrevocably linked in the public’s mind to the malignant (cancerous) or benign (noncancerous) growth of tissue.

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