Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these grafts are usually rejected in three to 25 days. The ideal solution would be artificial skin, a goal that has eluded scientists. But last week a team of Boston researchers announced they had a successful skin substitute made from a startling mixture of ingredients: cowhide, shark cartilage and plastic...
...ingredients become short white fibers. Freeze-dried and vacuum treated to remove moisture, the fibers form a light and highly porous white sheet of material, which is placed in an oven at a high temperature. The topmost layer, equivalent to the epidermis, is made by bonding a viscous plastic onto the cowhide-shark sheet. The completed skin is then freeze-dried and stored in sterile, closed containers at room temperature...
...alive, grow up into the new material, just like blood vessels and connective tissue. So these patients have the same kind of sensations as with a skin graft. It isn't perfect, but it is very good." The artificial dermis breaks down as new natural tissue forms. The plastic top layer acts solely as a temporary protective covering; beginning as early as ten days after the artificial skin graft, postage-stamp size patches of plastic are peeled away and replaced by slivers of the patient's own epidermal tissue...
...drove farther and farther into the country and still hadn't reached our destination after 40 minutes. I couldn't imagine I'd be doing the reverse of this on foot. Once in Hopkinton, we were engulfed by a sea of runners--thousands of them, many of them wearing plastic leaf bags to keep warm in the bitter wind. A visitor from outer space would have felt right at home...
...never explained or worked through, aside from the vague relationship between the secret society of Freemasons and the actual work of masonry, and the even vaguer relationship between Masonic ritual and parts of The Magic Flute--which Prum does not underscore, but parodies, giving his priests of Isis red-plastic horns to blow and coffee-can censers. Later, Prum projects photos of Widener to illustrate Prince Tamino's approach to the Temple of Wisdom...