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...clan, Francisco, stays behind in the Philippines with his mistress, the mother, Milagros (a "volatile" woman given to pricy shopping sprees after fights with her husband), travels to America with her emotionally troubled son Voltaire (who has a penchant for bringing home strangers ranging from "a man with a rat's face" to "a burned-out ballerina") and her troublemaking daughter Rocky. Though the book switches voices and perspectives, for the most part its focuses on Rocky. She is a pugnacious, tough-talking sort. She loses her virginity to a rock-'n'-roll rebel named Elvis Chang, co-founds...
Using nerves from the rat's chest muscles for the bridge, Cheng carefully connected the insulated white matter on one side of the spinal cord to uninsulated gray matter on the other. That way, the nerves in the gray matter would grow toward the white and, he hoped, re-establish contact. The investigators used a natural adhesive called fibrin to anchor the bridge in place...
...there are groups who feel strongly that tearing down these old structures, rat-infested or not, would be an immense loss to the community...
Imagine a mouse impregnating a rat, a bull impregnating a horse, a deer impregnating an elephant. Imagine a man fathering a child--or 100 children--a century after his death. Sound preposterous? Think again. A team of scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center has taken the first tiny steps toward scenarios at least as bizarre, and perhaps even more so. Writing in the current issue of Nature Medicine, the researchers report that they have frozen spermatogonial stem cells--the cells that make sperm--thawed them and coaxed them back to life...
...second experiment is equally groundbreaking. If rat stems can produce rat sperm while living in a mouse's testicles, it's plausible at least that any mammalian species could play host to the stem cells of any other--thus helping biologists, for example, preserve the genetic material from endangered species...