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Snyder and Wolfe reversed the disease's progression by transplanting immature healthy brain cells, called progenitor cells, into the enzyme-deficient brains of newborn mice. According to Snyder, the young cells matured into normal healthy cells, migrating and engrafting themselves in the brain as the mouse grew older...
...rather the strong ensemble cast and the mesmerizing visual and emotional pitches achieved by their director, David Levine. When the play opens with Nella, we know we are already standing on unsure ground. In Marolachakis's hands, Nella's dialogue seems to come from a place both ancient and newborn. Her opening monologue in which she declares, "you always live downwind of something peculiar," feels just right...
...pluses and minuses are added up, average life expectancy at birth is still increasing and now tops 75 years. None of us is ``average,'' however. Girl babies are expected to live 6.8 years more than boys, a difference that may or may not be mostly genetic. And newborn blacks are expected to live an average of seven years less than whites. That could stem from environmental factors, including access to medical care, since the gap was only six years as recently as 1985. But even the world's best medicine makes no difference in the end. A surprising truth, which...
...first, Victor Frankenstein's mother dies in caesarean delivery performed by her husband. Though physically (and graphically) destroying the mother, the birth produces a joyful child who is a delight from his first moments. The monster's birth, however, is an awkward torment. The doctor/father/mother/creator wrestles with a newborn twice his size in a bath of amniotic fluids. The child attempts to kill his mother immediately on emerging from his copper womb, struggling to use his malformed limbs and decaying mind in an act of revenge...
...most interesting decision concerns Why Do I Love You? Originally written as a duet for Ravenal and Magnolia in a scene that opens the second act, the song is here given instead to the carping old New England biddy Parthy, who croons it to her newborn grandchild. At a single stroke, Parthy is suddenly humanized, and we see in her the tender side that must have attracted her husband, the skipper Cap'n Andy, in the first place. As Parthy, Elaine Stritch is one of the production's great strengths. She has no voice to speak of at this stage...