Word: parkinsonã
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...well. The Corrections has a remarkable view of the world, and this is made apparent through our encounters with the Lambert family. We first meet Enid and Alfred performing the slow and futile rituals of married life after retirement. Alfred, reticent and principled, is waging a stubborn battle against Parkinson??€™s disease. His struggle frustrates Enid, a Midwestern mother of three grown children striving to maintain a fantasy of proud normalcy and prosperity in her own life and in the lives of her children. The Lambert children are not exactly cooperating with that fantasy. Chip is a former...
Embryonic stem cells have the capability of developing into any tissue in the body, possibly providing a source of cells to treat diseases such as diabetes and Parkinson??€™s disease. But scientists say that it will take them years to develop such treatments because so little is known about the cells...
...second faction, meanwhile, seeks an exemption for the cloning of embryos in the laboratory. They honor the march of science; they cite the potential advantages of embryonic stem cells created through cloning to treat diseases from Parkinson??€™s to diabetes. There’s something profoundly icky about cloning embryos—but there are also a lot of very bad arguments being used to attack it, and when medical advances might lie in the balance, it’s hard not to sympathize with victims who desperately seek a cure...