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Experimentation with the collagen gel has been encouraging. In tests undertaken recently, no subject rejected the purified collagen as a foreign substance. Nor does the collagen liquefy. Instead, it is gradually absorbed as new ocular fluid appears naturally, usually within four weeks. Meanwhile, the gel promotes the return of vision. On one series of patients treated by Dr. Donald M. Shafer, the collagen gel was administered as part of a regular surgical procedure to seven people with eye hemorrhages. In three cases, there was a recurrence of the hemorrhaging, and the damage was too severe to be corrected. But four...
...tangible adversary in the summer-you feel it moving invisible around you, winter a fair opponent, cold all behind the ears and in moon shadow more than afternoon suns naked in the midnight standing in the moonlight, with everything visible in precise shadow is quite silence, the reflected sun, fluid in its coolness is substantial as its warmth in day, contouring in degree around arms and neck and chest, a diminishing sensation into mystery of deeper shadow than sun an adobe ruin cut into and through a hill so that the builders had only to brick two end walls, cover...
...with accuracy whether or not the infant will inherit his parents' defective genes. The procedure is known as amniocentesis, from the Greek amnion (membrane) and kentesis (pricking); it is performed by inserting a long needle through the mother's abdomen and drawing off a small sample of the amniotic fluid, the amber liquid in which the fetus floats. Physicians then separate the fetal skin cells from the fluid and place the cells in a nutrient bath where they continue to divide and grow. By examining the cells microscopically and analyzing them chemically, the doctors can identify nearly 70 different genetic...
INDEED, ONLY development of an "artificial womb" capable of supporting life stands in the way of routine ectogenesis, or gestation outside the uterus, and now even this problem may yield to solution. Scientists at the National Heart Institute have developed a chamber containing a synthetic amniotic fluid and an oxygenator for fetal blood, and have managed to keep lamb fetuses alive in it for periods exceeding two days. Once their device is perfected, the baby hatchery of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World will be a reality and life without birth a problem rather than a prophecy...
...column some twelve feet high and six feet wide, with compartments bearing such names as "The 10% War Invalid," "Ruhr District," "Goethe's Grotto" and "Sex-Murders Cavern." They enshrined, among other relics, a tattered stocking, which Schwitters insisted had belonged to Goethe, and a bottle of yellow fluid on which little flowers were suspended, which he whimsically called "the Master's urine"-meaning...