Word: labs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...children are a large enough market. Too many babies are still being circumcised without anesthesia, in Berde's opinion; he thinks that at the very least a numbing cream should be used but that general anesthetics and nerve blocks are more effective. "You couldn't go into an animal lab and do a procedure like that without anesthesia," he says...
...later, he lifts the bulk of Schuler's cancer out of the hole he has made and places it in a stainless-steel bowl. "Call the tumor guys to come down and get a specimen," he orders. Another piece of the tumor will be sent to Black's own lab while he goes back in to clean up the cavity...
...these tools have revolutionized neurosurgery but, just as in his lab work, Black keeps pushing to improve them. He is advising a student, for example, on a project aimed at essentially bringing functional MRI into the operating room in real time. This would permit a surgeon to re-image the brain constantly during surgery in order to observe the changing geography of the brain as the operation progresses. Black is also seeking advances in noninvasive surgery, used when a tumor is so deeply embedded in eloquent tissue that it cannot be cut out. Surgeons now use focused beams...
...became ill--particularly since the condition often deteriorates in a matter of hours--Morton and his wife Caroline decided to build a clinic in Lancaster County. Lacking government, university or foundation support, they applied for a second mortgage on their home in St. Davids, Pa., to raise money for lab equipment. Their chief need was for a mass spectrometer that, together with a gas chromatograph and a computer workstation, would provide the technical means to diagnose and record cases. Having read about Morton's work in the Wall Street Journal, Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard donated all three machines...
...Felix E. Diehn '98, a biochem concentrator who is also applying to medical school, says he is doing hands-on research. The 20 to 25 hours he spends a week in the lab are spent "all at the bench...