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...back burner. Meanwhile, there were several advances in the effort to get adult stem cells to work like embryonic stem cells (which can morph into any type of cell in the body). One small study involved heart patients undergoing bypass surgery. In half the patients, stem cells harvested from bone marrow in their hipbones were injected into their damaged heart tissue. The results were encouraging, but researchers don't know whether the stem cells transformed into new heart muscle, increased blood-vessel formation or somehow coaxed existing heart cells to become more active. Researchers are finding new sources of adult...
This year’s Revels, directed by Patrick Swanson and George Emlen, brings French/Canadian cheer with music, dance, and rituals in celebration of the winter solstice. There will be fancy fiddling, clog dancing, bone playing, and audience participation in singing both carols and rounds. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, for $42/32/20. Shows through Dec. 19 in Sanders; normally 8 p.m., Saturday at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Sunday at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. and Thursday at 7:30pm...
...like water. But it doesn't get things wet. Its name is 3M Novec 1230 Fire Protection Fluid, and its chemical formula looks like alphabet soup. (It's technically a fluorinated ketone, whatever that means.) But you can dunk a laptop computer in it, and it'll come out bone dry and working fine. That makes this wonder fluid perfect for putting out fires in offices, computer rooms and museums. Just don't try drinking...
...fall broke my left hip, and I had to have a new hip put in. In the second fall, I broke my pelvic bone in three places. The only way at my age to get healing of the pelvic bone is to stay in bed, so I've had to stay in bed most of this year. I feel a little weak from that, but I feel fine otherwise...
...Just under 1,000 12- to 24-year-olds are diagnosed with cancer in Australia each year. Most pediatric oncologists would argue that these patients, if theirs is a cancer type common among children (certain leukemias, and bone and soft tissue tumors) would be best treated in a children's hospital. But governments bar such hospitals from treating new patients above a certain age, usually 17. So teenage cancer patients are scattered through the health system, many being seen by oncologists more used to treating the cancers of middle and old age. These doctors, argue their pediatric counterparts, tend...