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But perhaps the most widely publicized scientific event of the summer was not a discovery but a saving. Harvard doctors used a new method of growing sheets of skin from tiny samples to save the lives of two young brothers, who suffered burns over almost all of their bodies in...
The purpose of test flights is to flirt with what pilots call the outer edge of the envelope, to push a plane to the limits of its capability and see what it can do. That is what one of the prototypes of the sleek plane was attempting over the Mojave...
The room exploded like a fire bomb, and the youngsters ran out of the house screaming, their bodies aflame. Neighbors, who called paramedics, said the children were so charred that they seemed to be covered with mud. The brothers' friend had the most severe injuries: he died two days...
The technique, developed by Dr. Howard Green of Harvard Medical School, has been used on six other burn patients, none with injuries as serious as those of the Selby boys. Says Plastic Surgeon G. Gregory Gallico III of Massachusetts General Hospital and the Shriners Burns Institute, both in Boston, and...
The boys' big break came when Bailey heard that the Shriners Institute had done cultured skin implants on a limited basis. "I thought, 'That's the ticket. That's what they need,' " he recalls. The children were flown east one week after the accident. As...