Word: implantation
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...then, is Joe Mesa's alleged deed? An aberration? Or something new in the community? In the past few decades, just as the deaf have established a national profile, some of their cultural distinctives have been eroding. Deaf children, once segregated in residential schools, are often mainstreamed today. Cochlear-implant operations, once opposed by some deaf people as insulting and possibly harmful, have gained in acceptance. Pagers and e-mail are supplanting bulkier TTY, the small teletype that enables deaf people to use phone lines. Because most televisions now come equipped for closed-captioning, deaf Americans, historically less well informed...
...IMPLANT ALERT After years of controversy over whether silicone breast implants are linked to connective-tissue disorders--the latest consensus is that they aren't--scientists raise a new concern. A 13-year study suggests that women with implants may be three times as likely to die of lung cancer and twice as likely to die of brain cancer as other plastic-surgery patients. Researchers can't explain their findings, but they know that it doesn't make a difference whether the implants are made of silicone or saline...
...Holzman: When it comes to introducing proteins into a human being, doctors have two options: You can infuse them into the brain (which requires a permanent pump), or you can choose gene therapy, as in this procedure. Gene therapy means you implant genetically modified tissue during a one-time procedure. Hopefully, those cells will produce the factor you are looking...
...device developed at the University of Strasbourg. The Tactile Vision Substitution System (TVSS), a 3-sq cm pad that rests on the tongue, translates images from a digital camera into electrical stimulation, which forms patterns on the tongue corresponding to the shape of the image. The team wants to implant the tvss in a dental retainer that sends signals to a digital camera mounted on a pair of glasses...
...fact, the risks involved with cloning mammals are so great that Wilmut, the premier cloner, calls it "criminally irresponsible" for scientists to be experimenting on humans today. Even after four years of practice with animal cloning, the failure rate is still overwhelming: 98% of embryos never implant or die off during gestation or soon after birth. Animals that survive can be nearly twice as big at birth as is normal, or have extra-large organs or heart trouble or poor immune systems. Dolly's "mother" was six years old when she was cloned. That may explain why Dolly's cells...