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...until his secret is uncovered by a former lover who has a secret of her own. The Gourmet Club, the short story of the book's title, is the hidden haven of a gourmand who concocts exotic dishes out of ingredients such as tree bark, bird droppings and human saliva for a menu that might feature "Phlegm-and-Spittle Liquid Jade" or "Velvet Carpeting Soup." Mr. Bluemound represents the epitome of extreme movie goddess worship: a smitten fan constructs a series of actual physical replicates of the star in various positions for his own erotic purposes. And in Manganese Dioxide...
...Harrison: Smallpox is a virus. It?s a naturally occurring disease that?s transmitted from person to person via "droplet nuclei," or saliva, somewhat analogous to chicken pox. It first evolved long, long ago and eventually became a major pathogen for humans...
...Smallpox is caused by the variola virus, and is spread from one person to another via infected saliva droplets. A person exposed to the virus might not show any symptoms for 12 days before developing a high fever, fatigue, headache and generalized back pain. Two or three days later, a characteristic rash develops over the face, arms and legs; the rash begins as flat lesions which fill with pus, then scab over and fall off in three or four weeks. Roughly 30 percent of smallpox patients eventually...
...most of us, blood, urine and saliva are just unsightly bodily fluids to be disposed of as quickly as possible. But to David Sidransky, they are valuable sources of biological information that can be mined for nuggets of potentially life-saving data...
...indirect cancer markers like PSA, which have an unacceptably high rate of false positives, Sidransky zeroed in on DNA shed directly from tumors. Many solid tumors, it turns out, result from mutations in stretches of DNA that are repeated several times. Finding these abnormal DNA snippets in urine or saliva could mean a cancer is just beginning to take root. In a small pilot study of bladder-cancer patients, one screen that Sidransky developed picked up more than 90% of tumors--a hit rate that could revolutionize the early detection and treatment of bladder cancer...