Word: boning
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...grown into a living replica of the original. This is far beyond the reach of today's science. There is a vast difference between cloning an embryo that is made up of immature, undifferentiated cells and cloning adult cells that have already committed themselves to becoming skin or bone or blood. All cells contain within their DNA the information required to reproduce the entire organism, but in adult cells access to parts of that information has somehow been switched off. Scientists do not yet know how to switch it back...
...what about the couple that sets aside, as a matter of course, a clone of each of their children? If one of them died, the child could be replaced with a genetic equivalent. If another required a bone marrow or kidney transplant, a donor could be thawed and raised with tissues that are guaranteed to be 100% compatible. Or what if the couple just feels like having a third child that is more like their daughter than their son? By thawing out the corresponding embryo they could have a second daughter who would be a twin of the first, only...
Although Cyr may have a bone to pick with Harvard Real Estate, he says Harvard students are a positive force in Cambridge...
...that different either. Naturally, it was devoured first and ended up being the only dish which did not wreak havoc on our gastrointestinal tracts later that night. The chicken house special is a spicy, curry-like dish, partly finger-food because of the hunks of bone-dry chicken and the single hard-boiled egg plopped in the middle. If the house special was what the critics were thinking of when they gave Asmara its award for excellence in "spicy meat dishes," those critics must have liked their spices dull. From the vegetarian section, we chose a lentil mush, which didn...
...recent study showed that women over 75 suffered roughly the same incidence of bone fractures due to osteoporosis whether or not they had ever received estrogen...