Word: pigged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday, it must be pig cells. After Thursday's debacle over the supposed fusing of genetic tissue from a man and a cow, another small biotech firm has stepped up to the plate with a possible use for barnyard-animal DNA. But Alexion Pharmaceuticals' research, backed up by Yale's School of Medicine, is just a little more credible -- if no less fantastic. Cells from genetically altered pigs have helped heal spinal cord injuries in lab rats, and may do the same for humans -- offering a tiny ray of hope to millions of paralyzed people around the world...
...Specially enhanced to resist rejection by the host body, the nerve cells -- taken from the pig's snout, no less -- not only restored the spine's protective sheath, but actually caused the spinal cord to regenerate itself. Researchers have already started testing the technique on monkeys; early results have been positive. Soon, they expect to move on to humans. But Alexion CEO Dr. Leonard Bell sounded a note of caution: "The best-case scenario is that patients may expect to become somewhat more independent in their everyday living but maybe not entirely independent," he said. Realistic expectations in cell technology...
While Senator and first-American-to-orbit-Earth John Glenn once again gained national attention last week--this time for his role as a geriatric guinea pig aboard the space shuttle Discovery--Dr. Charles A. Czeisler, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), was busy investigating Glenn's sleep patterns...
...Jewish, so pig's blood doesn...
...make that blood, do you bite on a capsule of pig's blood...