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...balance these concerns when both time and care are critical was evident to TIME reporter Alice Park, who observed members of the New York Hospital-Cornell burn team as they attended a 26-year-old woman who had been terribly burned on her face and upper torso by acid thrown on her by her male companion's former girlfriend...
...skin has been so damaged by the acid that it's liquefied," says Himel. It begins to stick to the razor-sharp peeler, which he wipes repeatedly to keep it clean...
...Himel has moved his attention from the woman's chest to her neck and discovers that the acid has burned all the way through the dermis on the right side. He carefully slices away the damaged tissue...
Diehn's research which involves RNA-ribonucleic acid-capping, was recently published in Cell, a biochemical journal...
Another line of investigation revealed that serotonin may play a role in sleep. Destroy the raphe nuclei in cats, and they develop permanent and total insomnia. Give the wakeful cats a shot of serotonin, and they immediately go to sleep. In humans the amino acid L-tryptophan, which is converted to serotonin in the brain, is sometimes used as a sleeping pill. (A bad batch of L-tryptophan killed several people in the late 1980s and effectively killed the craze.) In another experiment, researchers discovered that when they stimulated raphe cells to release extra serotonin not in the brain...