Word: liverance
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Differentiated cells, by contrast, have already become specialized, with some genes turned on and some turned off, making them into breast or liver or pancreas cells. Although a differentiated cell still contains all the genetic information needed to create a whole new creature, much of that information is suppressed. Nobody had ever succeeded in reprogramming its genes back to the comparatively undifferentiated state suitable for cloning...
...even conceivable that a human with a failing liver could have a new one grown from, say, a cell taken out of his bone marrow. "This is fantasy now," admits Alan Colman, research director of PPL Therapeutics, the Scottish biotechnology firm that holds the license for the process that created Dolly. "But two years ago, so was the work that is now being presented in Nature...
...1970s some of the boosters hired a New York City public relations firm to persuade people that Kansas City was not a cow town. They said I should quit harping on that American Hereford Association cow and that, contrary to what I kept claiming, its heart and liver do not light up at night...
Lamivudine, or 3TC, is best known for its success as part of the AIDS "cocktail." But a study out last week shows that the drug may be useful in treating chronic hepatitis B, a liver disease with more than 300 million sufferers worldwide. In a one-year trial on Chinese patients, viral levels in the blood fell more than 90% for those who took the drug...
Just in time too. The recall two weeks ago of Duract, a potent painkiller that also killed a number of patients by causing liver failure, shows just how hard it is to develop an analgesic that's both effective and safe. But the demand for new pain medications is growing. Baby boomers are just starting to hit their arthritis-prone 50s. While the disorder currently afflicts 40 million Americans, the number could reach 60 million in the next two decades...