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...test tube with her husband's sperm. When the fertilized eggs have grown to the 32- or 64-cell stage, the doctors will flick off a few cells from each and analyze their DNA. When they find an egg carrying a gene without the fatal defect, they will implant it in the uterus and allow the fetus to grow to term, free from the threat of Huntington's disease...
After Abe's sperm had successfully penetrated Sarah's unfrozen eggs, DNA analysis revealed that all the embryos were healthy. Sarah and Abe decided to implant just one, destined to be a male. But because Sarah was something of a traditionalist, she opted to carry the baby herself rather than enlist the services of either an artificial womb or one of the center's 18-year-old surrogate mothers. A round of hormone therapy rejuvenated Sarah's uterus, and nine months later Isaac was born...
...essentially "glued in place. It becomes incapable of metastasizing," says Erkki Ruoslahti, president of the foundation. A second approach to controlling cancer is known as "walking on ice." Here the goal is to deny tumor cells traction so they can't grip the walls of blood vessels to implant elsewhere in the body. This may be accomplished by using drugs to block certain CAMs on malignant cells...
...fine print of an editor's note in the debut issue of the Harvard Review wryly states that the journal is not available in "microfilm, fiche, CD-ROM or cranial implant...
...Medical School Dean Daniel C.Tosteson '44 earned $240,000, and AssociateProfessor of Implant Dentistry Paul A. Schnitmanwas paid $221,750. Business School Dean John H.McArthur earned...