Word: collagenized
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...idea that the grand tragedy of aging and dying might be nothing more than a body-wide process of caramelization was humbling, but more research provided still more proof. Studies of the collagen sac between the brain and skull in diabetics and the elderly turned up brown pigment characteristic of advanced glycosylation. "The glycosylation process is like the free-radical process," says Dr. Robert Butler, head of the International Longevity Center at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. "It's a natural phenomenon that keeps us alive but also helps lead to aging...
...Jackal in case the original was insufficiently bloody, First Wives is one of the best movies of a very long year. It's funny: "There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney and Driving Miss Daisy," declares Goldie Hawn, who with her collagen-inflated lips is trying to stay in the first phase. It's touching: Diane Keaton is convincing as a woman devastated when her husband reveals he made love to her not because he wanted to reconcile but because he wanted a divorce. And it's satisfying: these women don't just get even...
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...first priority of treatment is to restore the damaged skin that is the body's first line of defense against microbes. To lessen the need for taking extensive skin grafts from other areas of a burn patient's already weakened body, several biotechnology companies have developed grafts made from collagen, a fibrous protein that is a natural component of skin and other tissues. The laboratory-grown collagen serves as a permanent scaffolding, above, in areas in which both the upper epidermis and deeper dermal layers of skin have been burned. Once grafted, new skin cells and blood vessels grow around...
Without oxygen to aerate tissues and make vital structural components like collagen, notes Knoll, animals simply cannot grow large. But for most of earth's history, the production of oxygen through photosynthesis - the metabolic alchemy that allowed primordial algae to turn carbon dioxide, water and sunlight into energy - was almost perfectly balanced by oxygen-depleting processes, especially organic decay. Indeed, the vast populations of algae that smothered the Precambrian oceans generated tons of vegetative debris, and as bacteria decomposed this slimy detritus, they performed photosynthesis in reverse, consuming oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas that traps heat...