Word: gastrically
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WINNER: Wilson. Compared with her gastric-bypass surgery on the Net, this is a dignified publicity move...
...celebrate Hope's short life, Nancy and David threw her monthly birthday parties. But in between, the details were grim. In month three, Hope developed seizures. In month four, doctors inserted a gastric tube to make feeding easier. They said she lacked the brain capacity to suffer, but Nancy is not so sure. Some nights her daughter whimpered for hours. One night in the seventh month, David went to check on her. "I just touched the back of her leg. Her body was really cool. Even though you prepare yourself..." He woke his wife and said, "She's gone." Nancy...
...Perry Molinoff and his colleagues methodically tinkered with a couple of molecules they had identified the old-fashioned way--by testing tens of thousands of compounds on cultures of growing cells. Among other things, they adjusted certain structural features to reduce the chance that the molecules would cause gastric distress and to increase the likelihood that they would cross over the blood-brain barrier. And all the while, they checked and rechecked to make sure that during this biochemical shuffling they did not lose the key property that made these particular molecules potentially so valuable: their ability to block...
...recent flight, I found the manicotti too darn spicy. I plan to travel a lot this summer and wonder how I can avoid such gastric discomfort...
...pharmaceutical marketing manager to figure out the potential here. Excess stomach acid causes great misery in millions of human beings. Perhaps the frog secreted a compound that could help chemists develop a new drug to relieve some human stomach ailments. Maybe so, but we'll never know. The Australian gastric-brooding frog went extinct in 1980, long before a drug company could uncover its secret...