Word: serum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unless the extracted eggs and the husband's sperm ? usually obtained by masturbation ? are kept at the right temperature and pressure, free of contamination and in an appropriate culture medium (salts, nutrients and sometimes blood serum), fertilization will not occur. Explains the University of Pennsylvania's Benjamin G. Brackett: "You don't want the eggs to suspect they are out of the body...
...late Sir Frederick Banting began working on Banting's theory that the then fatal disease diabetes could be treated with a hormone from an animal pancreas. Holed up eight weeks in their lab, the two isolated insulin. Best later devised a method of drying and storing blood serum and pioneered development of the drugs histamine, heparin and choline...
Comparable results have been obtained at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo and Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. There, scientists use the reaction in an electric field between the patient's blood and serum from immunized rabbits to determine acid phosphatase levels...
...with the highest concentration of the fatty molecule in their bloodstreams run the greatest risk of atherosclerosis. This is the buildup of fibrous fatty plaques in the blood vessels and a precursor of heart disease-the leading cause of death in the U.S. Hence, the reduction of blood (or serum) cholesterol has become a prime goal of doctors and patients alike. Still, physicians have been puzzled by one observation: though some patients show a seemingly dangerous level of serum cholesterol, they somehow remain immune to coronary disease...
Play evened out during the second half, and with six minutes to go in the game Crimson back Sid Anderson scored on an extra-man situation off a set serum at the Brown 40 yard line. Anderson missed the conversion, leaving Harvard with a tenuous 4-3 advantage...