Word: bone
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Just this past spring, scientists at U.C.L.A. announced that they had inserted foreign genes into the bone-marrow cells of mice, the first attempt at using new genetic-engineering techniques with living animals. But experiments on humans, experts said, were still years away. Not so. Last week it was disclosed that the great divide between research in mouse and in man had been quietly crossed...
...July, U.C.L.A. Hematologist Martin Cline and colleagues at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus and at a clinic of the University of Naples performed gene transfers on two female patients. Both had severe thalassemia, an inherited blood disorder in which the bone marrow produces red cells with defective hemoglobin (the molecule that carries oxygen to body tissues). Victims need frequent blood transfusions, but this leads to a buildup of iron in the body, particularly the heart, that can eventually cause death...
This is not a scene from a 1950s sci-fi film, but a bizarre aftermath of Hurricane Allen, which early in August inundated coastal areas that were bone-dry because of drought, causing salt-marsh mosquito eggs to hatch. Suddenly the mosquito, slightly larger at ¼ in. long than the common backyard variety, became a major plague. So far, the insects have killed at least 49 cows and horses but no humans, though several Texans have been chased indoors or into cars by the voracious bugs...
...enormous head. From the brow there projected a huge bony mass like a loaf, while from the back of the head hung a bag of spongy fungus-looking skin, the surface of which was comparable to brown cauliflower. . . From the upper jaw there projected another mass of bone. It protruded from the mouth like a pink stump, turning the upper lip inside out and making of the mouth a mere slobbering aperture . . . The back was horrible, because from it hung, as far down as the middle of the thigh, huge, sack-like masses of flesh covered by the same loathsome...
Consider punter Steve Flach's 40-yd. kick from the far reaches of the end zone to get Harvard out of trouble after two earlier snaps went over his head. Or split end Ron Cuccia, neutralized offensively thanks to superb coverage by Crusader defensive back Eric Oden, contributing a bone-crushing block on a 30-yd. screen pass to Jim Callinan and a crucial tackle on an interception...