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...mobile-phone industry has wanted to touch it." They may no longer have a choice. With a series of studies beginning in 1992, the Lund group has shown that in laboratory rats, at least, mobile-phone radiation opens up this barrier so molecules of the blood protein albumin - which should be far too large to penetrate - can seep through. These results have recently been duplicated in another laboratory, and their latest study shows for the first time that when the bbb is breached by albumin, the excitable brain cells that allow us to think, talk and dial mobile phones - namely...
Though women’s history is the collection’s focal point, Gold emphasizes the evolution of the history of photography as well—from daguerreotypes to tin types to albumin prints...
...this procedure, hemoglobin-rich blood is pumped unit by unit from a vein and replaced by an equal number of units of a nonblood fluid to expand the volume to normal; the patient's own drawn blood is held for use after surgery. In another technique, doctors may use albumin, a protein found in plasma that is acceptable to many who refuse transfusions on religious grounds, to maintain or increase blood volume, or to manage an underlying medical condition. Says Shander: "They used to tell us, 'Give 'em a couple of bottles of blood--it won't hurt...
...says the culprit may be cow's milk, and the process a bizarre case of mistaken identity. Doctors at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto found that the diabetics had a much higher than normal level of antibodies to a protein in cow's milk called bovine serum albumin; their bodies have targeted the protein as an invader to be destroyed. By a terrible coincidence, a section of this milk protein is almost identical to a protein on the surface of insulin-producing cells. When these people are sensitized to milk, the theory goes, they are also sensitized...
Ericsson's theory is based on the fact that sperm carrying the Y chromosome move somewhat faster than sperm carrying the X. To select males, a sample of semen is placed at the top of a glass column containing a solution of albumin, a sticky protein normally present in such bodily fluids as blood and semen. After an hour, more Y-containing sperm than sluggish Xs should have sped to the bottom. The Y sperm are further concentrated by being run through increasingly thicker solutions of albumin. "It's like making them run the Boston Marathon with overshoes...