Word: donor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...anyway. The experiment reported in Thursday's New York Times, in which a Massachusetts biotech firm fused a human cell with a cow cell to create that primeval soup known as stem cells (which can be transformed into either human tissue or a clone of its donor), has been greeted with a healthy dose of skepticism by observers who suggest the Times has been duped. "They haven't done the science," says TIME science editor Phillip Elmer-DeWitt. "They haven't reproduced it. It isn't science until you do it a second time." Indeed, the biotech firm Advanced Cell...
...week's news that the Museum of Modern Art in New York City had to give up four highly esteemed drawings because they are no longer considered "modern." This is due to a quirk in the will of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, a co-founder of the museum and the donor of the drawings, two each by Van Gogh and Seurat; she felt that 50 years after her death (which came in 1948) the works in question would be better off in dustier institutions like New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago so that MOMA...
...center cost the University $1.2 million, nearly half of which was contributed by one donor. How many calls would it take for our favorite fund-raiser to put together that kind of money? Better still, the University commissioned plans for the Katz Center just two years ago. And once the donations were in place, construction was completed in a remarkable two months. The only downside to the Katz Center is that Penn undergrads must pay $75 for a yearly membership. But that's not the point. The point: Where there's a will for a new gym, there...
...Wednesday wrote another page of science fiction into the medical books by sewing a dead man's hand onto a living patient. A multinational team of doctors working in Lyon spent three and a half hours transplanting the hand and part of an arm from a brain-dead donor to a 48-year-old Austrialian businessman who lost his lower arm in a logging accident almost a decade ago. [Ed. Note: In a bizarre twist, it was later reported that the patient actually lost his limb using a circular saw while incarcerated in a New Zealand jail.] Unlike earlier attempts...
...market and peaceable times, seemed invulnerable to redefinition no matter how lurid the rumors of his personal conduct. But that was a judgment made about a public man: Starr has now introduced his wanton private shadow, and asks us to reckon with both. There is Clinton, servicing a major donor on the phone as Monica lurks nearby. There he is plotting chance encounters in the hall so he and Monica could slip into the private study, while indirectly warning the men who guard him that indiscretion will cost them their jobs...