Word: fetal
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What makes Dolly and these new mice special--and distinguishes them from barnyards of previously cloned pigs, cows and sheep--is that they were cloned from adult cells or, as the scientists call them, differentiated cells. All those earlier clones were made from fetal cells, which have no specialized function but carry the potential to turn into anything and everything the body needs...
Cousrouf frankly despairs about the crank plague and in particular its spread from generation to generation. "A lot of the crankers are products of crank mothers, or they have fetal alcohol syndrome. And we're seeing a whole new era of fetal drug syndrome--underdeveloped brain stems, SIDS deaths." Cousrouf believes crank is one of the main culprits in these cases...
...SKINNY New insight into scleroderma, a puzzling and life-threatening skin disease: a study suggests fetal cells that linger in the mother after she gives birth may somehow trigger the disease...
...used to justify an average of one clinic bombing or arson per month--sometimes the same clinics Sanger helped found--and the murder of six clinic staff members, the attempted murder of 15 others, and assault and battery against 104 more. In each case, the justification is that potential fetal life is more important than a living woman's health or freedom...
...Wakanyeja," a Lakota Sioux expression signifying "children are sacred," was both the title and the message of a youth performance on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) at Longfellow Hall yesterday evening...