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...unborn only months after conception and to determine with accuracy whether or not the infant will inherit his parents' defective genes. The procedure is known as amniocentesis, from the Greek amnion (membrane) and kentesis (pricking); it is performed by inserting a long needle through the mother's abdomen and drawing off a small sample of the amniotic fluid, the amber liquid in which the fetus floats. Physicians then separate the fetal skin cells from the fluid and place the cells in a nutrient bath where they continue to divide and grow. By examining the cells microscopically and analyzing them chemically...
NINE months ago, Britain's 16-member Health Education Council launched a drive against unwanted pregnancies by distributing a controversial poster showing a melancholy male with one hand resting on his bulging abdomen. The caption read: WOULD YOU BE MORE CAREFUL IF IT WAS YOU THAT GOT PREGNANT? Now the Council has outdone itself. On the cover of 200,000 pamphlets that will be distributed to British high school and college students and local medical clinics later this month is a posed reconstruction of a 200-year-old engraving of Giacomo Girolamo Casanova, the 18th century courtier whose name...
...sleeping child on the thumb. Determining from tests that the bat was rabid, doctors began almost immediately to administer vaccine made from rabies virus grown in duck embryos and then killed. For 15 days, they injected massive doses of the serum into the muscles of Matthew's abdomen, a painful prophylaxis that usually prevents the disease if begun early enough. This time, the effort failed. By the end of October, Matthew complained of muscular stiffness and dizziness; by early November, he was experiencing difficulty in speaking and moving his left...
...scalpel, not the slow cure of a pill." Even the scalpel can be too slow. "For God's sake, will you cut?" asked the surgeon who supervised No-len's first timid incision. "At the rate you're going, we won't be into the abdomen for another four hours...
...fluid surrounding the fetus. At that point, the level of a phospholipid known as lecithin usually rises sharply and surpasses the level of another lipid, sphingomyelin. To determine if this has occurred normally, the Gluck test uses transabdominal amniocentesis, a technique that involves inserting a sterile needle through the abdomen into the womb, drawing off a sample of amniotic fluid and measuring the lipid levels...