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...cancer, they can grow tumor cells from people with common forms of cancer. (The mouse cells apparently produce some yet unidentified factor that supports the growth of certain human cancer cells.) According to Salmon, the cancer cells that thrive and form colonies in the laboratory's plastic petri dishes appear to be the tumor's "clonogenic," or "stem," cells. Though they account for less than 1% of all the cells in a tumor, these cells are thought to be the cancer's key replicating units; they divide and migrate, "seeding" new cancers in the body...
There were some worthy suggestions made, however, One came from William Petri, a research fellow in Biology, who warned the council not to cripple the research, but to take it to an area that is not so crowded. Other worthy suggestions include confining the research to one site, at least for the time being. People interested in conducting the research could receive leaves of absence to work at the site, as the Harvard physicists interested in working with high energy accelerators...
...main problem faced by ostomates is ignorance, Petri said. She said that even doctors know little about ostomies, since the operation has only been performed since...
...Petri is chairman of the young adults group of the Ostomy Association of Boston. Her main purpose, she said, is to visit people of her own age, usually just after they have undergone an ostomy...
...Petri said ostomates are also unfairly discriminated against in health insurance and employment. Rather than seeing ostomy as the cure that it is, she said, they are afraid ostomates will get sick again...