Word: implants
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...region. Some say it should really be called the Siliclone Valley because of the 16 genetic-engineering companies now located there. Robert Swanson, an M.B.A. from M.I.T., and Biochemist Herbert Boyer, for example, started Genentech. Collagen Corp., a bio-medical products company in Palo Alto, makes a biological implant called Zyderm, which helps remove the effects of scars from the human skin. Companies like Coherent Radiation in Palo Alto are doing pioneering work in the industrial use of lasers...
...After an implant, a rare Indian ox is born to a Holstein
Even more spectacular is an operation that researchers at the University of Utah hope to do soon: implantation of an artificial heart. The challenge is formidable, since the heart is one of nature's masterpieces. The fist-size organ beats 100,000 times a day, and over a lifetime pumps enough blood through the 60,000-mile circulatory system to fill 13 million bbl. The Utah heart, dubbed the Jarvik 7 for its designer, Robert Jarvik, is made of plastic and aluminum and powered by electricity. The implant operation will be performed by Utah Surgeon William DeVries. He will...
...already spent $2 billion on the MX. "The missile is vital," insists Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. "The question is, where do we put it?" Last week's proclamation will make it much harder for President Reagan to adopt a plan that would implant missiles in the Mormon heartland...
...powder, which then has a pasty consistency, is used to caulk around defects, to fill in holes, irregularities, and is shoved into places hard to get at. The chips, though rubbery, immediately give some stability and form." Cartilage and then bone appear, usually within six months of the implant...