Word: kidneys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem with running an auction site where anybody can put anything up for sale is that sooner or later they will. So it was that eBay officials found themselves Thursday confronting a particularly cringe-inducing entry: item #153213066, billed as a "Fully functional kidney for sale." "You can choose either kidney," the description read. "Buyer pays all transplant and medical costs. Of course, only one for sale, as I need the other one to live. Serious bids only." The listing had been up since August 26 and the bidding had been intense, running from $25,000 up to $5.7 million...
...past 25 years, doctors in the U.S. have warned their patients about the dangers of high blood pressure, a generally symptomless condition that increases the risk of heart disease, kidney failure and stroke. By aggressively treating folks whose readings exceed the normal limit of 140/90 mm Hg at rest, physicians have prevented millions of premature deaths and untold suffering. But it looks as if we've stopped getting the message. A national health survey released two years ago showed that blood-pressure rates are no longer falling; at the same time, the incidence of stroke has started to rise...
...strategy worked. The scientists took connective-tissue and kidney cells and introduced three mutated genes--one that makes cells divide rapidly; another that disables two substances meant to rein in excessive division; and a third that promotes the production of telomerase, which made the cells essentially immortal. They'd created a tumor in a test tube. "Some people believed that telomerase wasn't that important," says the Whitehead's William Hahn, the study's lead author. "This allows us to say with some certainty that...
With 28-year-old HSING-HSING suffering from a probably fatal kidney ailment and LING-LING dead, the Smithsonian's National Zoo is in discussions with China about acquiring another pair of giant pandas. Both the San Diego Zoo, which has a pair of pandas on loan, and Zoo Atlanta, which has been promised a pair, have pledged the going giant-panda price tag: $1 million a year...
With 28-year-old Hsing-Hsing suffering from a probably fatal kidney ailment and Ling-Ling dead, the Smithsonian's National Zoo is in discussions with China about acquiring another pair of giant pandas. Both the San Diego Zoo, which has a pair of pandas on loan, and Zoo Atlanta, which has been promised a pair, have pledged the going giant-panda price tag: $1 million a year. But the National Zoo, where admission is free, doesn't have such deep pockets. Its fund-raisers have pledged $2.5 million over the next 10 years, plus help in conducting a panda...