Word: livered
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...discovery that could help bed-ridden patients get back on their feet faster, a research team led by a Harvard Medical School (HMS) professor has found that a protein once associated only with liver function also plays an important role in muscle formation...
...biopharmaceutical company, announced that it had licensed a gene that would allow it to successfully stabilize human brain cells derived from fetuses and to proceed with treatments for different brain diseases. Eventually these could be used to combat Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, diabetes, chronic heart and kidney disease, liver failure, cancer and spinal-cord injury. Though stem cells can be obtained from adult tissue, scientists say they must also experiment with cells from fetuses and embryos if stem-cell research is to be translated into such specific therapies in humans. Anti-abortionists and some religious groups oppose any research...
DIED. LARRY RIVERS, 78, iconoclastic painter and sculptor who helped pave the way for the Pop Art movement; of liver cancer; in Southampton, N.Y. After studying the old masters in Paris, Rivers injected ironic humor into the earnest, Abstract Expressionist-dominated art world of the 1950s, with such works as Washington Crossing the Delaware, a parody of the famous American painting. A saxophonist, writer and sometime actor (appearing in the Beat-era underground film Pull My Daisy), he was both self-promoting and self-deprecating. Hospitalized once in the '80s, he envisioned his obituary headline as GENIUS OF THE VULGAR...
...Mullah Mohammed Rabbani, thought to be the second most powerful member of the Taliban, had reached out clandestinely to Massoud. "He understood that our country had been sold out to al-Qaeda and Pakistan," says Ahmad Jamsheed, Massoud's secretary. But in April 2001, Rabbani died of liver cancer. By that month, says the U.N.'s Vendrell, "it was al-Qaeda that was running the Taliban, not vice versa...
...saved by a transplant. The other, a 60-year-old woman whose identity has not been released, died. That's when Adachi went to the press. In the resulting explosion of news coverage, he learned his cases weren't the first?three other Japanese deaths, all due to liver failure, had been linked to Chinese diet drugs since 2000. After the news broke, more than 600 other Japanese contacted the Health Ministry saying they had been sickened by the pills. Japan's government finally banned the drugs by name and enacted tighter controls in mid-July...