Word: skins
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...grow into a fetus, however. The addition of powerful growth factors could ensure that the clones develop only into specialized cells and tissue. For the leukemia patient, for example, the cloned cells could provide an infusion of fresh bone marrow, and for the burn victim, grafts of brand-new skin. Unlike cells from an unrelated donor, these cloned cells would incur no danger of rejection; patients would be spared the need to take powerful drugs to suppress the immune system. "Given its potential benefit," says Dr. Robert Winston, a fertility expert at London's Hammersmith Hospital, "I would argue that...
...meant to be seen; indeed, all of us in this jumbled tableau of naked skin have volunteered for the exhibit. But you sorry lot with your flash photography and your jostling to get a better view--you may see the art, but we, the streakers of Harvard Yard, we get to be the art. We are the intermediaries between your smoldering spirit, your shackled freedom and their ultimate fulfillment. What we do, we do for you--but we also do it against you, and, ultimately, without...
...student working toward a doctorate degree, Fung is taking four classes and doing 10 to 15 hours of research per week on the relationship between diet and skin cancer...
Patients who suffer from pulmonary infections or painful skin burns caused by staphylococcus aureus, a pathogenic bacteria which sometimes infects hospital patients after surgeries, may have even more to worry about...
...bacteria leads to a wide variety of bacterial pathologies, from fatal pulmonary infections to painful skin burns. Blood infection, infection of the heart valves, infection of the lungs, meningitis (invasion of the spinal cord), osteomyelitis (infection of bone marrow), septic arthritis and perinephric abscess may also result. Many of these conditions can lead to death...