Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...checks in at the day-surgery department and is summoned to an examining room, from which she emerges a few minutes later in a baggy blue hospital gown and the inevitable plastic bracelet. Suddenly, she looks vulnerable. This morning Majewski is scheduled to undergo a bone-marrow harvest, in which doctors will remove about a quart of her marrow to be transplanted into a young patient dying of leukemia. She has never met the patient, who lives in Europe. They do not even know each other's names. They have been brought together by a computer search, by the quirk...
Black now wants to turbocharge TGF-beta gene therapy with dendritic cells, white blood cells that identify foreign proteins for destruction. He proposes to harvest dendritic cells from a patient's blood, expose them to cancer proteins in a test tube and reinject them. The cells would then point out the now familiar proteins to the immune system's killer T cells, which would track them down like bloodhounds that have been exposed to an escaped convict's dirty laundry. "We can completely eradicate glioblastomas in rats using this strategy," says Black. "We want to get these treatments out into...
Rising stock prices and profit gains are the fruits of canny investment, but the economic climate makes the harvest possible. What is the weather like in the regions into which U.S. investors are pouring funds? A panel of economic experts polled by TIME says the outlook is as good as it has been in a decade--with occasional patches of overcast, localized storms and a very small chance of a major hurricane...
...employee who worked for the Harvest in the 1980s, and would describe herself only as a long-time Cambridge resident, called the closing "a terrible loss...
...said "a whole alumni group" of former Harvest employees like herself who have moved on to other jobs continue to be good friends...