Word: serum
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...data showed a lower median concentration of DDE (4.71 parts per billion) and PCB (4.49 parts per billion) in the serum of cancer patients than in the controls (5.35 and 4.68 parts per billion respectively...
Researchers at Children's Hospital say that a purified inhibitor, obtained from the serum and urine of tumor-bearing mice, was found to stop anglogenesis...
...sacramental binder of friendships . . . the reward for work, the fuel for celebration, the consolation for death or defeat. Drinking gave me strength, confidence, ease, laughter." Hamill as a boy was obsessed by the comics, including Captain America, who began as mild-mannered Steve Rogers but then drank a magic serum that transformed him into a brilliant pile of muscles, the scourge of Nazi saboteurs. "The comics taught me that even the weakest human being could take a drink and be magically transformed into someone smarter, bigger, braver," Hamill writes. "All you needed was the right drink...
Injections of "truth serum," which some psychiatrists use to help patients recover their memories, have also been accused of inducing false memory. In these cases, doubters of the "abused" say, people's imaginations are inventing memories in order to shift blame for their problems onto other people. A recent U.S. News & World Report article said that skeptics believe the accusers "may embrace a `discovery' of past abuse because it offers a single, unambiguous explanation for complex problems and a special identity as `survivors.'" Skeptics, then, also seem to believe that the desire for attention, as it did the possessed...
...Medicine says the culprit may be cow's milk, and the process a bizarre case of mistaken identity. Doctors at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto found that the diabetics had a much higher than normal level of antibodies to a protein in cow's milk called bovine serum albumin; their bodies have targeted the protein as an invader to be destroyed. By a terrible coincidence, a section of this milk protein is almost identical to a protein on the surface of insulin-producing cells. When these people are sensitized to milk, the theory goes, they are also sensitized...