Word: blood
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...because their crippled immune systems can no longer mount proper responses, H.I.V. patients infected with TB often don't produce the recognizable symptoms of the disease such as coughing or visible lesions on chest X-rays. Their abnormal immunity also renders the myco-bacterium difficult to detect in blood-based assays...
...technique allows scientists to genetically manipulate a patient’s cells—typically skin cells or blood cells—and reprogram them into a pluripotent state. Like embryonic stem cells, these iPS cells are then capable of morphing into any type of body tissue...
...Though he used money from the NIH New Innovator Award that he won last year, Hochedlinger’s research was not subject to federal embryonic stem cell restrictions because iPS cells are created from skin cells or blood cells instead of from embryos. His work was also funded in part by the Harvard Stem Cell Institute...
...able-bodied, high level swimmer. Around the time of her accident, “I thought I was going to be a doctor, I had no aspirations of attending Harvard,” Kolbe said. But then she discovered she didn’t really “love blood or hospitals.” Kolbe turned down a spot on the US team for the 2004 Athens Paralympics so she could start her first year at Harvard, and she ended up concentrating in Health Care Policy, a special concentration. Kolbe is currently deferring her freshman year at Stanford...
...Offense: Linking McCain to Bush in his very first answer, he kept it up as his primary line of attack. Forcefully hit McCain for his early support of the Iraq War. Though he never drew blood, he did keep McCain a bit off balance, often with clever references to McCain's recent statements...