MIT tissue engineers have successfully healed airway injuries in rabbits using a technique they believe could apply to the trachea and other parts of the human body.
The work, published in the advance online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of May 5, expands researchers’ understanding of the control of [...]
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Jan
Editor’s Choice
Bleeding Kansas, by Sara Paretsky, $25.95. Best-seller Paretsky, who has tackled weighty issues in her V.I. Warshawski detective series (e.g., the Holocaust in “Total Recall”), weaves a gripping, contemporary novel around three farm families %26mdash; the Grelliers, Fremantles and Schapens %26mdash; that can trace their Kaw Valley, Kan., roots back to the [...]
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Dec
Anything is possible if one has the power to change the definition of words. Take for example the word truth. Once upon a time truth had a concise meaning. Merriam-Webster’s dictionary (M-WD) defines truth as “the body of true statements and propositions. Truth is the ’state of being the case.’” [...]
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Dec
Anything is possible if one has the power to change the definition of words. Take for example the word truth. Once upon a time truth had a concise meaning. Merriam-Webster’s dictionary (M-WD) defines truth as “the body of true statements and propositions. Truth is the ’state of being the case.’” [...]
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Dec
David Cronenberg doesn’t get it. Why do people think he’s weird? OK, so he makes films in which men mutate into diseased flies, women give birth to giant slugs, car crashes are eroticised, lovers penetrate vulva-like scars, game-players plug umbilical cords into their spines and syphilitic parasites go on the rampage. What’s so damned unusual [...]
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