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...extraordinary levels of hormones produced by the giant mice also suggest the possibility of "genetic farming," that is, using animals to produce large quantities of medically useful substances. Genetic engineers have already reprogrammed simple organisms like bacteria and yeast to produce insulin and growth hormone, but these have not proved to be fertile ground for producing blood-clotting agents needed by hemophiliacs. Harvesting such substances from large animals could be more fruitful...
...uncertainty is that no one knows what causes AIDS, and there is no single laboratory test to certify its presence. AIDS usually begins with swollen glands, fever, loss of appetite and a rundown feeling. As the illness progresses, the immune system grows weaker, leaving the patient vulnerable to viruses, bacteria and other problems. Among the most pernicious of these is Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), which has a 60% fatality rate, and Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare skin cancer that has stricken nearly 40% of AIDS victims, killing at least one-fifth of them. In the 17 months that...
...containers can be sold in the state if they are joined together by plastic rings or any other device that cannot be broken down by light or bacteria...
...kilowatts per hour, making it the first such plant to produce more energy than it consumes. But a larger plant built in 1981 off Kailuakona, on Hawaii, was a $50 million failure: corrosion of the heat-exchange pipes by sea water and fouling by small marine plants and bacteria rendered the system useless in a matter of days. New pipe materials are being tested, and the state, undaunted, has ordered designs for four 10-megawatt OTEC plants...
...extract," explains Dr. Victor Herbert, chief of the hematology and nutrition laboratory at the Bronx Veterans Hospital in New York. "There is a chemical in beans that reduces the speed of starch digestion. If you don't digest the starch, then it goes down into your colon, where bacteria ferment and make gas out of it. That gas can give you nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps and diarrhea, as well as making you socially unacceptable...