Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cadavers Are Best. The ideal way to get around the rejection reaction is to find an organ donor with the same immunity pattern as the recipient. This happens with any certainty only in the case of identical twins. For patients not so fortunate as to have an identical twin, the conferees agreed, the best source for a donated kidney is a brother or sister, with the mother next. The one-year survival rate for kidneys from close relatives, reported Dr. Joseph E. Murray of Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, is now 70%. For the patients themselves...
...questionnaire given at my termination conference, we were asked to note periods of particular elation or depression over the two-year stint. What emerged, however, was "no pattern whatsover." Rather than a neatly oscillating curve of ups and downs, what seemed to characterize the attitudes of the volunteers I knew was a new way of looking at the world. From all the evidence, we were great idealists before reaching our assignments and great cynics afterwards. Not all of the change was due to disappointment. A good deal of it, I think, was simply growing...
...errors could derive not from "a magical art of doing and undoing," but from an all-too-earthly had memory. The analyst will of course, contend that people forget and remember by subconscious design, but in specific instances a man's faulty testimony -- unless it fits a really obvious pattern -- is hardly something to be strongly emphasized. One could probably pick a date of a hat and find a significance for it in just about anyone's life...
...most common inherited diseases in Britain, as in the U.S., is cystic fibrosis, which occurs once in about 2,500 births.* The pattern of inheritance is Mendelian recessive-the gene carrying the defect is weak and is overpowered by a corresponding normal gene, so that a child with one normal parent does not develop the disease. But if both parents carry the abnormal gene, and it is proved by the birth of one child with cystic fibrosis, there is a one-in-four risk that any subsequent child will also be afflicted. Other diseases in the bad-risk group: some...
Rather Cheerful. Other abnormal conditions seen at birth are associated with defective genes, but the pattern is more complicated than Mendelian recessive. They produce hydrocephalus (water on the brain), spina bifida (failure of the spinal column to close), harelip and clubfoot. When a couple has had one child with one of these defects, the chance that a later child will have it is in the good-risk range, or about one in 25. "You may think that is rather serious," said Dr. Fraser Roberts, "but we think it is really something rather cheerful. You have to remember there...