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...hardest to replace. It removes toxins from the blood and manufactures up to 1,000 proteins, metabolites and other vital substances. Now scientists trying to develop an artificial liver have found a way around these complexities: they let rabbit-liver cells do the work. The Bio-Artificial Liver developed by Dr. Kenneth Matsumura has a two-part chamber--patient's blood on one side, live rabbit cells suspended in a solution on the other--with a semipermeable membrane in between. As toxins from the blood pass through the membrane, the rabbit cells metabolize them and send the resulting proteins...
...began about four years ago, as an ill-fated Dixieland trio, says Jake E. Flemming 01, one of the three founding members who has filled the bands tenor chair to overflowing since his early days as a co-founder and distressingly square clarinet player, according to his website bio. Scammon, Flemming and Eric R. Rosenbaum 03 had met in the Harvard Wind Ensemble, and wanted more. To cut a long story short, Flemming claims that they simply said, This is stupid, lets play funk instead, and started on a long, slow climb to their current position . We were...
...Games. Also, "It's not too late for you to order your Official Olympic Legacy Brick." The happy chat belies a serious attack of pre-Games jitters. The Salt Lake Teachers Association wants all schools closed to keep out terrorists. Fearful callers are swamping talk-radio shows to voice bio-chemical scenarios. And even Mayor Rocky Anderson acknowledges that since Sept. 11, "more people are going to take vacations out of state" during the Games...
Nikhil Kacker ’02, a Harvard bio-chemistry concentrator who said he once planned to go to medical school, said complications in the medical world discouraged him from his plans to become a doctor...
...part in the fight against bioterrorism. It was one of several companies that offered the government free supplies of drugs believed to be effective against anthrax. It also offered the feds a fully-funded team of scientists with expertise in bacterial research to help fight the bio...