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Cohen, Stanley

(1922–  ) cell biologist; born in New York City. He taught at the Universities of Michigan (1946–48) and Colorado (1948–52) before joining Rita Levi-Montalcini's laboratory at Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.) (1953–59). He discovered the epidermal growth factor from mouse tissue extract, which accelerated the maturation of newborn mice. He continued his studies of this substance at Vanderbilt University (1959–86), determining its amino acid sequence and action on cells and wound healing. In 1986, he and Levi-Montalcini received the Nobel Prize in physiology for their fundamental contributions to cell and organ development.
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.
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From its early formulation in the works of Stanley Cohen and Jock Young, 'moral panic' has developed into an influential, albeit highly contentious, theoretical concept in academic fields ranging from media studies to criminology and the sociology of youth.
Stanley Cohen launched the term moral panic as a means of characterizing the reactions of the media, the public, and agents of social control and the youthful disturbances.
His lawyer, Stanley Cohen, said prosecutors missed the conspiracy statute's five-year deadline to file any charges under US law and also failed to specify any actions that furthered the alleged conspiracy after the 2001 attacks, most of which time he was in Iran.
Kaplan told Sulaiman Abu Ghaith that he could cause himself problems by hiring Stanley Cohen to defend him against the charges imposed on him as al-Qaida's chief spokesman.
Herbert Boyer of the University of California at San Francisco and Stanley Cohen of Stanford University conducted an experiment that successfully combined and replicated genetic information from different species, when they introduced a gene from a frog into a bacterial cell.
In the 1950s, Stanley Cohen and Rita Levi-Montalcini isolated nerve growth factor and then discovered epidermal growth factor at Washington University.
Stanley Cohen said at the American College of Rheumatology meeting.
The first person to write about moral panics was Stanley Cohen in 1972.
Also speaking will be nonfiction writer Carol Soret Cope, who wrote In the Fast Lane: A True Story of Murder in Miami, the story of the 1986 murder of Miami contractor Stanley Cohen, and Murder on the High Seas: The True Story of the Joe Cool's Tragic Final Voyage, which explores the investigation into the 2007 disappearance of the boat Joe Cool during its voyage from Miami to the Bahamas.
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