Word: scaffolding
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...marchers in the New Year’s Eve parade felt no such compulsion, though. They did not guard their cardboard boats against the incipient wet; they did not scaffold their trash-bag puppets against the breeze. You might call this lack of prudence foolhardy, but you did not see the joy in the children’s lamp-lit faces on New Year’s Eve. Their cardboard might sag, their flowered sails might collapse, but for the ten minutes it took them to make two laps of the main street, their hope was infectious...
...team created the teeth by taking unerupted pig tooth buds, breaking these tissues down to the cell level and coating a scaffold—or tooth mold—with as many cells as possible. The scaffold was then implanted in the blood-rich intestinal lining of rats...
Langer's approach to the design of biomaterials has paved the way for the emergence of the new field of tissue engineering. Working closely with Harvard's Joseph Vacanti, Langer is using tailor-made polymers to build tiny scaffolds that can then be seeded with skin, cartilage, liver or other cells. The idea is to provide a temporary structure that cells can colonize and upon which they can eventually grow into a functioning organ--at which point the scaffold dissolves away. Langer foresees the day when scientists will be able to grow a new liver or pancreas for patients waiting...
...loneliness with promiscuous affairs and used friendship as the one predictable source of support and spirituality. Friendship, in fact, forms a main artery of the book. After the onset of AIDS symptoms and the cavernous despair that ensued, Sullivan cites the strength of his friendships as providing his only scaffold of hope. But not even friendship was immune to the epidemic. As AIDS infiltrated the gay community with the stealth and fury of a plague, Sullivan buried some of his closest friends and saw others deteriorate to the point where even protease inhibitors could not save them from incipient death...
...Jerry padlocks his refrigerator and keeps its contents in combination-locked canisters). Caught up in the movie's intricacies, we go along with it, momentarily distant kin to those people who cling desperately to some convoluted explanation for a national tragedy. Conspiracy theory may be reason's most rickety scaffold, but it is more comforting than its alternative, which is chaos theory. Wouldn't want to see a movie about that, would...