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Testing is, of course, already commonplace. As many as 9 out of 10 pregnant women in the U.S. submit to some prenatal screening. Typically, this involves sampling the mother's blood--so-called serum-alpha-fetoprotein testing to seek out telltale proteins that may indicate spina bifida, neural-tube defects or Down syndrome--or looking directly at the fetus with ultrasound scans. For women over 35, doctors usually recommend more invasive procedures in which actual fetal cells are gathered from the womb's amniotic fluid (amniocentesis) or placenta (chorionic villus sampling...
...smoke him out of his denial. Her privacy destroyed and her dignity under siege, the last thing Lewinsky wants to do is spend the fall and next spring answering prurient questions from Congressmen about her private life. The sheer possibility of semen on the dress would be like truth serum in Clinton's orange juice: Nothing like a DNA test to bring out the best in a man. Sure enough, no sooner had the dress made its way to the FBI lab than Clinton's aides began to hint that he might admit to the affair after...
...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...