retinue
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His rooms atop the Marine Biological Laboratory building on Main Street began to overflow with centrifuges used to extract submicroscopic quantities of promine and retine.
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And neither pro-mine nor retine seems to have any harmful incidental effects�in sharp contrast with virtually all anticancer drugs now in use.
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One of them promotes the growth of cancer in mice, so Szent-Gyorgyi named it "promine," while the other retards such growth, and is called "retine."
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To get them apart, the technicians rely on the fact that promine separates out more readily in an acid solution, and retine in one that is alkaline.
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Fortnight ago, his wife died of cancer, after a lingering, painful illness that began when he was in the midst of his retine research.
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