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Both teams use similar approaches to egg freezing. After retrieving as many as 20 eggs from a woman by stimulating the ovaries with fertility drugs, researchers dip the eggs in a cryoprotectant (a kind of antifreeze) and then a sugar solution, which pulls water out of the cells by osmosis. Then the cell is stored in liquid nitrogen at -320[degrees]F until it is ready to be used...
...there are simpler things to attend to. Night is falling, and Newdow has to call his daughter. "Hey, sugar, it?s Daddy," he whispers into the phone. "Love you, miss you, kiss you goodnight." A burly teenager knocks at the door. "Are you the man?" he says. Newdow concedes that he probably is. "You don?t have to worry about anything," says the unknown teen. "Okay," Newdow smiles as he closes the door, "now I'm worried." And he sits back down with his guitar, singing a song he penned himself - the Pledge Of Allegiance Got Some Old Religion Blues...
...Controlling insulin levels is the first priority for diabetics, but sugar imbalances also put diabetics at higher risk of heart disease. Help for their hearts may be as close as a drug diabetics are already taking. Rosiglitazone, which blocks insulin resistance, also appears to reduce the inflammation that can lead to plaque buildup in the heart arteries...
...SUGAR PIE HONEY BUNCH...
...like to think I'm a pretty neighborly guy. At least I'm always ready with a cup of sugar should someone ask for one--not that anyone ever has. But last week, quite by accident, I started doling out something far sweeter to everyone on my block: free high-speed Internet access...