Word: auger
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...have to teach old cells new tricks; given the right framework and the right nutrients, cells will organize themselves into real tissues as the scaffolds dissolve. "I'm a great believer in the cells. They're not just lying there, looking stupidly at each other," says Francois Auger, an infectious-disease specialist and builder of artificial blood vessels at Laval University in Quebec City. "They will do the work for you if you treat them right...
...tube of sheep-muscle cells around a polymer, added closely packed lining cells to the inside and stitched it into a sheep's pulmonary-artery circuit. Blood pulsing against the walls gradually strengthens the muscle cells, just as weight training builds biceps. To make smaller vessels, Laval's Auger bends a sheet of muscle cells around a plastic tube and reinforces it with an outer layer of stiffer cells. Then he removes the tube and seeds the inside with lining cells, which soon grow together. The vessels have worked well in animal tests, and in the lab have withstood blood...
...Moynihan (Auger, Powell...
Fifth-year senior Vinnie Auger obviously hasn't had his share of collegiate hockey just yet and is back to cause trouble for opponent's power play. Auger tallied a team-high six goals with a man advantage...
Much like RPI, Princeton's returning group will determine its future. Immediately following the 1997-98 season, the outlook appeared glaring for the Tigers, but then Dominique Auger--a member of the ECAC All-Rookie Team--decided to depart from New Jersey in favor of the Canadian junior hockey system...