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...fetuses, fixing urinary- tract blockages, for example, or inserting needles to drain excess fluid from the brain. But never before had physicians successfully performed such major surgery in the womb. Harrison hopes that his technique can be used to correct other potentially fatal problems, including large lung or spinal tumors and certain heart conditions. Several experts echoed that optimism. "We're in a whole new era of fetal treatment," said Dr. Eugene Pergament, head of reproductive genetics at Northwestern Memorial Hospital...
Unlike most other kinds of cells, the neurons that make up the adult central nervous system do not divide and multiply. Once they die, they cannot be replaced -- a fact that makes brain and spinal damage so devastating. But, in an unprecedented experiment, scientists at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine chanced upon a kind of human brain cell that could be nourished and cultivated. The researchers have kept a laboratory culture of the neurons alive -- and multiplying -- for nearly two years. The new technique, reported last week in Science, should make it easier for scientists to study...
Farmers, meanwhile, are seeing an explosion of birth defects among livestock. Colts have appeared with eight limbs, deformed lower jaws and disjointed spinal columns. Photographer Kostin reports that 197 freak calves have been born at the Yuri Gagarin collective farm in Vyazovka. Some of the animals had no eyes, deformed skulls and distorted mouths. At a farm in Malinovka, about 200 abnormal piglets have been born since the accident...
...dilemma posed by the Gathers case is more common than most people realize. Thousands of athletes are diagnosed each year with spinal disorders or heart conditions that put them at risk for everything from partial paralysis to sudden death. Do they play or don't they? For the doctor, who is liable either way, it is a no-win call. In 1986 Dr. Milton Sands, chief of cardiology at New Britain General Hospital, informed Central Connecticut State University that one of its basketball recruits, Tony Penny, had a serious heart problem. The school took him off the roster. Penny sued...
Daniel H. Tabak '92 complained about thelimited selection of artists. "There's no BillyJoel, there's no Beatles, there's no Spinal Tapand there's no 'Weird Al' Yankovic, ergo there'sno culture," he said...