Word: patients
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...orphan and a misunderstood genius who secretly wrote poetry. This is what Brits call overegging the pudding. But in the burn ward, he becomes almost plausible. He banters bitterly with his doctors and plans an elaborate suicide. Davidson could have just stopped here and called it The American Patient...
...fate of every entertainingly hate-filled monster to be reduced to a lovable curmudgeon? Apparently it must. Our man is visited by a woman with angel wings tattooed on her back who believes that she and he were lovers in 14th century Germany. She is a psychiatric patient who is also a world-famous sculptor of gargoyles. I would very much like to stop summarizing the plot now. Instead, here is a quote from their inevitable love affair: "A cheese strand dangled from her mouth to the edge of her left nipple, and I wanted to rappel it like...
Scientists from Harvard and Columbia announced Thursday the creation of the first patient-specific stem cell line from humans afflicted with a genetic disease, a key step in the push to create therapies for a wide variety of illnesses by replacing diseased tissue with tissue generated by stem cells...
...This opens the door to being able to make patient-specific, stem cell lines from diseases which affect people very late in life like Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's disease," Eggan said...
Though the researchers originally planned to produce disease and patient-specific stem cells using the controversial practice of therapeutic cloning, which requires both a supply of human egg cells and the destruction embryos created to produce the stem cell lines, they opted instead to use a newer technique called "direct reprogramming," which was first unveiled late last year...