progenitor

Watson was the most charismatic leader of the late-19th-century political thunderclap that came to be known as American populism, and his story resonates with the full promise and peril of the American project—he can be understood without exaggeration as the heroic scion of the Boston Tea Party and the fevered progenitor of Donald Trump’s violent fantasies.

In a binary system, if the stars are close enough, the companion star can eat up materials from the supernova progenitor - the star about to go supernova.

In this process, the "supernova-to-be" will end up losing more star stuff than if the stars were far apart or if the progenitor was alone.

But it’s the British original — equal parts ‘90s time capsule and old-school melodrama — that today comes across as a forward-looking progenitor of “Looking” and other 21st century shows about gay characters who are fully, messily, truthfully human.

Because these "progenitor" T cells retain tremendous anti-tumor potential, there is great interest in determining how to maintain them and the mechanisms that promote their transition into the non-functional exhausted T cell.