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Those tests would try the patience of any patient. Throughout the flight, Glenn's heart rate, respiration, blood volume and pressure will be monitored regularly. Doctors on Earth want to analyze his blood for immune function and protein levels, and this will require taking so many samples that throughout the flight, Glenn will wear a catheter implanted in his arm, allowing easy access to a vein without a new needle stick each time. He will wear a suit wired with sensors to measure his sleep cycles and will swallow a horse-pill-size thermometer that will take temperature readings...
Cavanagh was one member of a team headed by Nouchine Hadjikhani, a research fellow at Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital, that pinpointed the function of the new brain region, which they believe to be responsible for color vision. Their results were published in the July edition of Nature Neuroscience...
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...
...this well, and most young TV stars can't guarantee B.O. gold. Movies starring Campbell (Wild Things) and the slightly older Friends cast (Picture Perfect, Fools Rush In, Romy & Michele's High School Reunion) typically bump their heads on the $30 million ceiling. Teen movies still serve an old function: to caulk the crevices in the release schedule and create cheap product that, if it doesn't make a bundle, won't lose one either. Like I Was a Teenage Werewolf and the Elvis films of 40 years ago, they are reliable B movies...
Even so, it may take months to find a suitable patient (18 to 65 years old) and donor. For the recipient the benefits must clearly outweigh the heavy risks; he or she must be willing to accept the likelihood of limited function and feeling in the new limb, a lifetime of medication, the ever present threat of infection and, finally, what San Francisco neurologist and hand therapist Dr. Frank R. Wilson calls the heavy psychological burden of being reminded daily that "an important part of your anatomy is not your own." It won't be an easy decision for patient...