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...Researchers are studying several compounds, including calcium-channel blockers, that can slow down the metabolism of nerve tissue. The lower rate could help the brain get by on less oxygen and fewer nutrients, thereby lengthening to as much as 12 hours the amount of time doctors have to re-establish normal blood flow...
...miscarried--into infertile women. Fetal tissue is a rich source of eggs. A five-month fetus has cells that can produce about 7 million eggs, in contrast to the mere 400,000 or so that survive to a woman's puberty. Researchers have suggested using this tissue to establish egg banks for infertile women, who could then give birth to children who did not carry their genes--children whose biological mothers had in fact never been born...
...large it worked. More and more patients were surviving beyond a year, an established milestone of transplant success. But in 1992 Starzl and his colleagues discovered that there was something different about those recipients who had lived much longer--10, 20, as many as 30 years. By testing these patients, they discovered that white blood cells from the recipient's immune system had migrated into the donated organs--and vice versa. What is more, with the encouragement of the antirejection drugs, body and organ had learned to coexist in peace. If scientists could somehow find a way to facilitate that...
Hagedorn's first novel, Dogeaters, was widely acclaimed and was nominated for the National Book Award. The Gangster of Love should firmly establish her reputation as a writer of considerable talent. The book's only misstep is in its portrayal of Sly, a black member of the band the Gangster of Love, and the only significant black character in the entire book. Sly is the group's drummer, his last name is Washington, and he lusts after white women, abuses drugs and carries a gun--in other words he's a pistol-toting, coke-snorting caricature...
...rock band with him named "The Gangster of Love," and carries on a years-long flirtatious friendship with a bisexual painter-photographer named Keiko. Hagedorn?s first novel, "Dogeaters," was widely acclaimed and was nominated for the National Book Award. "The Gangster of Love," says Farley, should firmly establish her reputation as a writer of considerable talent...