Word: methods
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Harvard was one of the only universities to sign a letter urging the House not to ban a procedure known as somatic cell nuclear transfer which scientists say is the ideal method for harvesting stem cell products. The procedure helps ensure that implanted cells are accepted by the recipient’s immune system...
...large block letters and underscored with Braille. Looking at the series of tapes before me, I quickly understood that it would take a very long time to listen to the book in its entirety. I would have to content myself with concentrating in detail on sections of it, a method that, as an English major, I have learned works quite well with verbose 19th-century novels. I scanned the table of contents and noted the page numbers and tape volumes of the Picasso section. I pressed play, closed my eyes, and began listening to the introduction...
...bizarre scheme for tugboats to tow icebergs to Mexico. Just three months ago, a Greek company, Aquarius Water Transportation, was in Houston trying to interest clients in pumping North American water into rafts the size of football fields and towing them to parched locales around the world--a method Aquarius uses to haul water around the Aegean...
...gathering stem cells. The proposal offered by Dr. Antinori, Panayiotis Zavos and Brigitte Boisselier, on the other hand, apparently involves taking an egg from a human mother, removing the nucleus and implanting the nucleus of a cell from the person who?s being cloned. (This is the same method used by the scientists who cloned Dolly the sheep...
...major reasons for never wanting to get married. The first was that you can't have sex with other people. The second was that marriage is really just a legal method for the patriarchy to possess and subjugate women. You would not believe how long it took me to come up with the second reason...