Word: bone-marrow
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...life, such as bacteria, can survive freezing and thawing, no higher animal can, and certainly not man. Not even a single major human organ can be thus preserved. The National Naval Medical Center, the world's foremost freeze bank, stores only three types of tissue: corneas, skin, and bone-marrow cells. Frozen red blood cells and sperm will also keep for months or years. It is not for want of trying that researchers have failed to preserve whole organs, for a frozen-kidney bank would be invaluable to transplantation surgeons...
...wanted to make $5,000 a week," did well enough to leave $631,000 to his daughters by Divorced Wife Marjorie Hoshelle. The estate could grow even bigger if malpractice is proved in a current investigation of his death-attributed to shock resulting from staphylococcal septicemia. pneumonitis and bone-marrow depression-particularly in California, where the tall damage claims grow...
...should be possible to cure many cases of radiation injury by injecting bone-marrow cells from donors while the patient's antibody production is knocked out. And in acute leukemia, when the bone marrow is secreting abnormal cells, it might be possible to destroy the marrow deliberately with massive radiation, then replace it with healthy marrow. It has worked in mice and dogs, but the human system, far more, choosy, usually gets its antibody factory working again, and thus defeats treatment with injected "foreign" bone-marrow cells...
...body build. Beyond that, he could only guess. Perhaps it was because his patients had been healthy before the accident, then had suddenly received such a whopping jolt of radiation that it could not fail to knock out their marrow function-including antibody formation. Frozen marrow keeps for at least six months; if it can be kept longer, general bone-marrow banks may become practical. In any case, Dr. Jammet suggested, people working around reactors might have some of their own marrow removed and stored as a precaution...
Around Leningrad it had come in great fogs, sleet and cold which fed on human bone-marrow. Near Moscow it came in snow and wind howling in the forests and on the plains. In the south it came in torrents of rain and in snow as wet and heavy as soaked cotton...