Word: specimens
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...medical screening and personal interviews, on average only about 4% of willing donors are accepted into programs, where they typically stay for one to two years. Most are between 18 and 40; more than half are students. And their reasons for staying go well beyond the average $75 per specimen...
...years later, the same benign neglect greeted his next book, Strong Motion, about toxic subterfuges carried out by a Boston chemical firm. "Sixty reviews in a vacuum," as he later put it. Franzen began to wonder if literary fiction were going the way of the lyric poem, a deluxe specimen of cultural product enjoyed only by the happy few. When, he asked himself, was the last time an ambitious novel achieved the name recognition of Portnoy's Complaint, to say nothing of Catch...
...capture an embryonic stem cell, scientists must find an embryo, or blastocyst (from umbilical cord tissue, a frozen sample from a fertility clinic, an aborted fetus, or, most controversially, from a cloned specimen) ideally a few days after fertilization. Researchers then extract stem cells from the blastocyst, and, they hope, use those blank slates to create new, potentially curative, cells...
...Under the menace of this decision, French doctors, whenever the slightest shadow turns up on the sonogram, will advise: Abort. Perfect children are mandated by law. Parents will be considered irresponsible if they bring forth a specimen less than perfect. Think of the charming effect this decision would have if it were applied in those many countries around the world where a fetus that turns up with a vagina rather than a penis is considered to be defective...
...still may be evidence present if something happened in the apartment. But remember, she's been there - if you find something of hers, so what! It doesn't mean anything. If there's a hair, maybe they just didn't vacuum well. It really depends on whether her biological specimen is there and they're able to glean some information from a thorough analysis...