Word: boned
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...This latter category of photographs seems trite: the objects are robbed of their aesthetic autonomy as Davey manipulates them for some “unambiguously productive” purpose. People are rarely the subject of Davey’s pieces, with the occasional exception of hands holding a steak bone or feet on a wooden floor. Far more compelling, however, are the photographs that call attention to the quotidian objects that usually go unnoticed. In one pair of prints, a refrigerator decorated with papers and magnets, surrounded by a microwave and other appliance wires, stands next a print of cheap...
...Cord blood has several advantages over bone marrow transplants, the procedure to which it is most often compared. The first is that cord blood is collected without risk to the mother or the newborn, whereas a bone marrow donor faces surgery and general anesthesia. Cord-blood transplants also require a less perfect match in unrelated people, opening up a broader spectrum of potential donors, and recipients' bodies are less likely to reject a transplant...
...checkmark offered a lifeline. Last May, Beninati received a transplant of stem cells harvested from the blood of an infant's discarded umbilical cord at Boston's Dana Farber Institute, to help him fight a rare blood condition called myelodysplastic syndrome. After doctors couldn't find a matching bone-marrow donor, the 58-year-old New Yorker says his last hope was cord blood, a solution that would not exist without parental donors. New parents, Beninati urges, "must understand the importance this decision can mean for the public good...
...young body that's worked too hard can suffer in a lot of ways, but it's the bones that take the worst pounding. Activities like skating uphill on a Plexiglas surface, which allows skaters to strengthen their strides, or doing the explosive muscle-building movements known as plyometrics can wreak havoc on the skeletal system, particularly the epiphyseal plate, or growth plate, which is essential in bone development--a process that is not complete until the late teens...
Researchers believe the new procedure, which begins with a partial destruction of the patient’s bone marrow using a drug, may decrease organ rejection. The bone marrow gives rise to immune cells that help the body identify invaders. If the foreign marrow produces foreign cells, the study’s authors hypothesized that the body will recognize the transplant...