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Skin grafts or organs transplanted from one human being to another will not "take" permanently unless donor and recipient are identical twins. Reason: any healthy mammal sets up antibody defenses against "foreign" protein. For treating burns and in plastic and reconstructive work, surgeons would be able to do much more for patients if they could break down this automatic defense system. Last week, from a Manhattan conference sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences, came word of the most promising breakthrough yet on the antibody front...
...everything out, the thoughtful gift is obvious: cuff links set with brightly colored, plastic-encased models of his stone-laden gall bladder or ulcer-ravaged duodenum. Creator of "The World's Sickest Looking Jewelry'' is Dr. Robert G. Zach, a Monroe, Wis. radiologist who is convinced, after years of peering at tangled viscera on X-ray plates, that beauty is not only all around him but inside him. Taking inspiration from the delicately twined tubes, sacs and ducts he photographed, Zach set to work with a dentist's drill and clear plastic, began passing out three...
...talking of geriatrics. Los Angeles' Dr. Raymond Sprowl has a hundred old dogs on a regular digitalis regimen. Dr. McBride regularly treats grizzled males for prostatitis (usually by castration) and performs mammectomies on females. Operations for cataract are everyday affairs; some aging, presbyopic dogs have been fitted with plastic contact lenses...
...Plastic boats, which were about 15% of those made last year, are growing by 20% a year and rapidly taking over the industry. Some 95 plastic or fiber-glass boats were on display, including the 41-ft Bounty II, biggest plastic boat, with a 55-ft. fiber-glass mast, the tallest yet made. Among the other newcomers in Plastic: the 26-ft. Luders-16, day sailer and racer; the 15-ft. Feather Craft runabout; and the 14-ft. Owens Speedship runabout. The new construction not only permitted builders to cut costs,*but also set them off on a color spree...
...which can spray up to 15 Ibs. of plastic and fiber glass a minute on a mold and cut the cost of laminating plastic boats by as much as 40%, was announced last week by Rand Development Corp. of Cleveland...