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...quality of the uses in the building is as important as the architecture," said Anthony C. Platt, a member of the commission...
After the meeting, Platt said the bank had seemed much more willing to listen and work with preservationists at this session...
...such a bizarre operation possible. In the journal Nature Medicine last week, they reported overcoming some of the obstacles that Mother Nature has put in the way of transplanting organs between species. By altering the genetic makeup of a strain of pigs, Duke's team, led by Dr. Jeffrey Platt, was able to fool the immune systems of three baboons into accepting pig hearts almost as their own-at least for a short period of time. Platt predicts that he may be ready to transplant porcine hearts into humans in two years...
...around that problem, scientists at Nextran, a biotech firm in Princeton, New Jersey, re-engineered the genes of several litters of pigs so that their tissue would have some of the immunological markings that are found in humans. After these so-called transgenic animals had grown to full size, Platt and colleagues at Duke transplanted the pigs' hearts into baboons. Ordinarily, such hearts would have stopped beating within 90 minutes. Instead, all three transgenic hearts survived for at least several hours -- one lasted more than a day. Because people and baboons are so closely related genetically, the human markings...
Tommy Fawkes (Platt) is a comic who has been struggling through gigs in small venues for years. He is about to make his first run on the comedians' Big Time--Vegas. He follows in the over-sized footsteps of his father, played by comic icon Jerry Lewis, who is certainly not typecast as an aging...