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...form new vessels and improve blood flow; when injected directly into the heart with a syringe, they seem to grow into new tissue and improve pumping efficiency. He believes the lab-grown stem cells used by TheraVitae are as safe as ones taken directly from the patient's bone marrow?the most common source of stem cells for this kind of therapy?and safer than cells derived from bone or muscle tissue. "The results are promising and we don't see the complications that we see with other cell types," he says. Piero Anversa, a heart expert at New York...
...Holland Westville, South Africa Dr. Weil's thoughtful suggestions can easily be implemented without unrealistic changes to the average lifestyle. But it is surprising that he didn't mention the importance of continued mental exercise in ensuring healthy aging. Emphasis was placed on physical exercise to maintain muscle and bone vitality, but surely our brains deserve equal time. Crossword puzzles, word games and logic problems can help stretch our minds and keep our mental capacity limber. My mother lived to be 96 and was sharp as a tack to the very end. I attribute this in large measure...
...Ancient Genes The premise of Jurassic Park -- that material from blood cells found in the thorax of a prehistoric fly might be cloned to re-create a living dinosaur -- was echoed eerily in the science journals. Not only did scientists extract bits of DNA from the bone marrow of a 65 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil, but they also recovered intact DNA from an insect trapped in amber back in the Mesozoic era, 130 million years...
...right, with histories of deep hatred and the potential to erupt into wider violence -- even, in the case of the Middle East, into nuclear war. These struggles were not ideological, like the standoff of the superpowers. South Africa and the Middle East worked at a nastier level, closer to bone and gene and skin. They had, over the years, arrived at stalemate, a no-exit of chronic hatred. The struggles (whether to liberate one's own people, or to suppress the dangerous other tribe, or simply to survive in the moral airlessness) became prisons. The Men of the Year...
...down, and you’re just trying to bang it up, they’re dropping back, and you’re outnumbered on offense.”Harvard also got a temporary boost from the return of sophomore forward Jamie Greenwald, who has missed time with a bone bruise. Sporting a large wrapping on her ankle, she replaced Kerr in the second half but did not spend much time on the field.Earlier in the game, the two teams fought a see-saw battle. The Crimson’s best chance came when Wylie got behind the defense...