Director Yaky Yosha's third feature, " "'The Vulture " "', first screened in 1981, not long before the first war in Lebanon, dealt with the problematic immortalization industry resultant from young war casualties.
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In Ancient Egypt, the name ( the immortalization ) they believed that as the name was spoken it lived, therefore Ancient Egyptians feared becoming "'nameless . "'( i . e . without name, without a piece of their soul)
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But she also peppers her teaching with quotations ranging from Alexander Pushkin's immortalization of the ballerina Avdotia Istomina in " Eugene Onegin " to colorful descriptive passages from the critical writing of Theophile Gautier and Andre Levinson and stories of her teachers and ballerinas who danced for the Czar.
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The bungled immortalization becomes the cause of his death and funeral games in his honor are established at Eleusis under the guise of a ritual mock-battle, a quasi-athletic event known as the " Ball�tus ", which was held on a seasonal basis to compensate for the death of the baby cult-hero Demophon.
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Using a novel model of cell immortalization, it was found that the " MORT " gene is epigenetically silenced at the mortal / immortal boundary Since immortality is an essential feature acquired by human tumor cells, " MORT " may play a tumor suppressive role in human carcinogenesis, and its inactivation creates a cellular state permissive to immortalization.
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Using a novel model of cell immortalization, it was found that the " MORT " gene is epigenetically silenced at the mortal / immortal boundary Since immortality is an essential feature acquired by human tumor cells, " MORT " may play a tumor suppressive role in human carcinogenesis, and its inactivation creates a cellular state permissive to immortalization.
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This method has been used to immortalize prostate epithelial and stromal-derived cells, which are typically difficult to culture " in vitro " . hTERT introduction allows " in vitro " culture of these cells and available for possible future research . hTERT introduction have an advantage over the use of viral protein for immortalization in that it does not involve the inactivation of tumor suppressor gene, which might lead to cancer formation.
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Writing his " Lives of Illustrious Men " ( Parallel Lives ) in the first century CE, the Middle Platonic philosopher Plutarch's chapter on Romulus gave an account of the mysterious disappearance and subsequent deification of this first king of Rome, comparing it to traditional Greek beliefs such as the resurrection and physical immortalization of Alcmene and Aristeas the Proconnesian, " for they say Aristeas died in a fuller's work-shop, and his friends coming to look for him, found his body vanished; and that some presently after, coming from abroad, said they met him traveling towards Croton . " Plutarch openly scorned such beliefs held in traditional ancient Greek religion, writing, " many such improbabilities do your fabulous writers relate, deifying creatures naturally mortal ."
