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Transplanting a pig's heart into a human being sounds like an experiment only a mad scientist would dream up. But researchers at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina believe they are quite sane -- and getting closer to making 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...
...nothing else, the letter to the Times and three more letters -- one to victim David Gelernter, a Yale computer scientist seriously injured in a 1993 blast, and the other two to potential targets whose names are being kept secret -- have given investigators their best clues yet. An additional 100 agents were quickly added to the 30-person, San Francisco-based Unabom task force run jointly by the fbi, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the post office...
...pathos and spunk would make itself evident in non-Astaire efforts like 1937's Stage Door. In the years following the screen couple's parting of the ways in 1939, she scored such triumphs as her Academy Award-winning work in the tearjerker Kitty Foyle (1940). A Christian Scientist, Rogers believed in the avoidance of tobacco and alcohol. She also believed in marriage: she did it five times; all ended in divorce...
...Most scientists just do not understand how someone with this knowledge can take this attitude," one scientist says. "It is widely regarded as totally and utterly irresponsible...
Woodward, who died in 1979, was the first scientist to synthesize several important organic compuonds, including cholesterol, cortisone and quinine, which was used to treat malaria during World...