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...three-year-old Sioux boy, becoming one of the first single men in America to legally adopt a child. The child, Abel, had a constellation of mental and physical disabilities caused by the fact that his mother drank heavily during her pregnancy. Part memoir, part medical investigation into fetal-alcohol syndrome, especially among Native Americans, The Broken Cord was a best seller and became a 1992 made-for-TV movie. It also sparked congressional hearings into the syndrome and brought awareness of the dangers of drinking during pregnancy to a mass audience...
CONCORD, New Hampshire: Michael Dorris, the author who helped spread awareness of fetal alcohol syndrome with his award winning book "The Broken Cord," has died from an apparent suicide at age 52. According to Concord police, Dorris was found in motel room and apparently suffocated himself with a plastic bag. Part American Indian, much of Dorris' writing focused on the history and plight of Native Americans. "Native Americans: 500 Years After," and "A Guide to Research in Native American Studies," are among his better known works. But his book "The Broken Cord," earned him the most notoriety with a National...
...that I can transfer into a chicken that makes the chicken move its head like a quail when it's crowing like a chicken," said Evan Balaban, the experimental neurobiologist who performed the study. In another experiment, Balaban made a chicken sing like a quail by implanting into a fetal chicken brain cells which control quail sound patterns. The altered birds, Balaban said, remained chicken-like in most respects and displayed behavioral characteristics which were "well organized." Might it be possible to make humans behave like other animals? Not likely, said Balaban, since it would raise a hornets' nets...
...vaccine "is not infectious," Kasper said. "We don't see that there's any defined risk in immunizing pregnant women," particularly because the riskiest fetal development is completed by the third trimester...
...find out, Hayflick harvested cells from fetal tissue and transferred them to a Petri dish. Freed from the responsibility of doing anything to keep a larger organism alive, the cells did the only other thing they knew how to do: divide. Shortly after they were placed in culture, they doubled their number. Then they doubled the doubling. The cycle repeated itself about 100 times, until all at once it stopped. From then on, the cells did something a lot like aging. They consumed less food; their membranes deteriorated; and the culture as a whole languished. Hayflick repeated the experiment...