Word: fetal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gale of UCLA and three colleagues flew to the Soviet Union and worked tirelessly to save the radiation victims. Virtually ignored in the reports from the scene was the fact that Soviet physicians and Gale tried a controversial new technique on six of the most severely irradiated Chernobyl workers: fetal-cell surgery. In a desperate attempt to reconstitute the blood-forming tissues of these victims, the doctors transplanted liver cells from human fetuses aborted in the first months of pregnancy...
Those efforts were in vain; all six patients died within a week of the accident. Nonetheless, that Gale used the technique at all reflected the growing confidence of many doctors that fetal-cell surgery could soon become an important medical tool. In the People's Republic of China, physicians have used fetal-cell implants to treat diabetics. In Sweden, researchers have performed fetal-brain-cell transplants to rid rats of Parkinson's disease, a progressive and hitherto incurable neural disorder. In the U.S. and elsewhere, fetal-cell experiments with animals have shown promise of treatments for a host of other...
...Gaussier to the west do look exactly like that, just as the writhing strokes of his brush on the olive trunks are a direct pictorial equivalent to the real arabesques of ancient bark and wood. One might not often see a real cloud like Van Gogh's -- that strange fetal shape extruded into the blue sky -- but it powerfully conveys the strength of the wind over the plains beyond Les Baux...
...afternoon. My grandmother had offered to give me a ride to Logan, and as we were driving along the lazy curves of Storrow Drive, something large and yellow flashed by us, nearly knocking us off the road in its roaring wake. When I dared to get out of the fetal position and opened my eyes, I realized the object was an old school bus. The next thing I realized was that our spedometer was lounging somewhere between...
...book, Karen Ann, and a movie, In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan, or that on her 31st birthday this past April, cards of good wishes came from all over the world. Throughout all this, for more than ten years, she lay in a coma, curled into a fetal position, shrunken to little more than 60 lbs., unable to see or speak...