Word: fetal
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...sampling the mother's blood--so-called serum-alpha-fetoprotein testing to seek out telltale proteins that may indicate spina bifida, neural-tube defects or Down syndrome--or looking directly at the fetus with ultrasound scans. For women over 35, doctors usually recommend more invasive procedures in which actual fetal cells are gathered from the womb's amniotic fluid (amniocentesis) or placenta (chorionic villus sampling...
That force, for a while, was all Clinton had. No one in the White House could manage a convincing denial of the Lewinsky charges. Clinton himself was practically in the fetal position, "freaking out," an associate said, a sort of response that was enough to convince many who had watched him over the years that the stories were substantially true. Only Mrs. Clinton seemed more angry than broken, appalled by the very notion of a sting operation against a President, reminding people how offended everyone had been to learn about J. Edgar Hoover's wiretapping Martin Luther King...
Meet Dr. Nancy E. Oriol, associate dean for student affairs and assistant professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School (HMS), co-director of obsetric anesthesia at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, inventor of devices to resuscitate newborns and analyze fetal heart rates, founder and co-director of The Family Van and respected researcher...
...Parkinson's, though, it might be difficult to share such faith and optimism. The surgery Fox received is not helpful to all patients, nor is it a permanent cure. Though one of the most important legislative acts of the Clinton Administration was the lifting of the ban on fetal tissue transplant research to aid Alzheimer's and Parkinson's in 1993, increased funding and public awareness are still lacking in the search for a true cure for the disease...
Until Dolly, that is. What Dolly proved is that you don't have to take your chances with fetal cells. You can wait until the litter has grown up, see which individuals have proved themselves to be great producers of wool, milk or--a stretch, perhaps--NBA titles, and then clone the champs...