Word: plasma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death toll of at least 16 exceeded the 15 Americans killed in the previous 10 months of U.S. involvement in Somalia. The International Committee of the Red Cross estimated 200 Somalis had died in the battle, and hundreds of wounded piled into hospitals that in some cases had no plasma or other supplies to treat them...
...instead. Moreover, Hennekens says, when he tried to recruit doctors to participate, he found that some had been told by Genentech salesmen that using the other drugs in the trial could endanger their patients. Streptokinase, they were told, could cause cerebral bleeding, and anistreplase, which is derived from human plasma, was alleged to carry a risk of AIDS infection. Neither danger is significant, said Hennekens. Genentech denied any direct meddling in the trial and disputes the study's findings on methodological grounds...
Based on these findings, Michaelson concluded that "changes in the overall synthesis of each plasma protein are mediated by selective growth and death among these specialized cells in the liver. In short, plasma protein synthesis fits our description of the Darwinian process, organized by cellular selection among a diverse collection of specialized cells...
...Roughly 65% of the cases involved alcohol and drug use, while 85% of the residents had been physically or sexually abused. This halfway house was their first experience of safety -- and for many, of responsibility as well. "This place saved my life," says Lynn Morozko, who sells her plasma and works at a women's shelter while earning a degree in design engineering. "A lot of people think homelessness is a type of social Darwinism," she says. "But it isn't stupid people who are homeless. It's that we hit walls that we can't get over by ourselves...
Nestled on Albany St. at the edge of the square, a set of red brick buildings marks the beginning of the new Cambridge, a cluster of high-tech firms with names like BASF Bioresearch, Transkaryotic Therapies, and Kurzweil. But next door to the MIT plasma fusion center, at 240 Albany St., lies a complex of two trailers that seems oddly misplaced in this new industrial mecca...