Word: bloodstream
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...animals can absorb the nutrients from plant matter only in the small intestine, but food is digested in a part of the gut that’s farther “downstream.” So how do plant nutrients finally get into the rabbit’s bloodstream having already passed through the small intestine undigested...
...Belfast, among other locations. Targeted mainly at 11- to 14-year-olds, the show profiles some of the projects that Einstein's successors are working on, such as an electronic nose that can sniff your breath to make a medical diagnosis, and tiny robots that may soon navigate your bloodstream. tel: (44-870) 870 4868; www.einsteinyear.org "The detail of Einstein's physics can be tricky, but you don't need to understand it to appreciate the effect that his work has on our lives," says Caitlin Watson, program organizer of Britain's Einstein Year events. "Computers, iPods, mobile phones...
Getting pregnant without infecting a partner is the first obstacle for those women. Some, like Kelli Hughes, use artificial insemination, while others opt to have unprotected sex when their viral load--or measure of the virus in their bloodstream--is low. During the first trimester of pregnancy, the women take a break from any antiretroviral drugs they may have been taking so that the fetus is not exposed during this critical developmental window. But drug treatment is resumed or begun in the second trimester and continued through the end of the pregnancy. At the time of delivery...
...bean-shape structures act to screen the lymph, a watery fluid drained from between the body's cells, for bacteria and abnormal cellular matter. The absence of cancer cells in the nodes suggests that any cells that may have been shed from Reagan's tumor had not reached the bloodstream or the lymphatic system, although Rosenberg conceded that doctors could not be certain of that. By either route, cancer cells can be transported to other parts of the body, where some of them may lodge, multiply and form new tumors...
...spread. So I am someone who does not have cancer. But, like everyone else, I'm apparently vulnerable to it. And therefore there will be checkups for a period to see if it's going to return or if there was a cell that had escaped into the bloodstream or something...