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Effective prophylaxis and treatment for infections caused by biological threat agents (BTA) rely upon early diagnosis and rapid initiation of therapy. However, most methods for identifying pathogens or infectious agents in body fluids and tissues required that the pathogen proliferate to detectable and dangerous levels, thereby delaying diagnosis and treatment.

Rasha Hammamieh

You do not die all at once. Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony of the whole corpus.

Dr. Richard Selzer

The beauty of this approach is that the phage can already be screened and selected to either target a certain cell type in the body, or home to certain tissues.

Renata Pasqualini

Asthma is a chronic respiratory condition that causes inflammation in the airways. As these tissues swell, they limit the volume of air that can pass into the lungs.

Robert Nathan

The long-term vision is to replace, repair and regenerate failing tissues and organs with the materials of tissues and organs. It's still 'out there,' but it's possible to put together a grant proposal now that doesn't sound completely crazy.

William Wagner

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

John Burroughs

We'd like to develop a treatment option for early breast cancers that minimizes disfigurement and spares normal tissues. We found that, in animal models, injecting chemotherapy into the milk ducts confines most of the drug to the breasts, leaving other tissues unharmed.

Saraswati Sukumar

Most of the tissues that age ... that we're interested in -- the brain, the heart, the muscle, the kidney, etc. -- those cells never divide at all and they never replicate their nuclear DNA so their telomeres can't get shorter and, therefore, that couldn't affect their longevity.

Doug Wallace

The swelling started with his knee, then it went to his whole leg, and then I guess from there it just takes in and eats the tissues up.

Jodi Webb

This is one small step in our ability to go forward in replacing damaged tissues and organs.

Anthony Atala

Because it's chewed, it delivers caffeine to the body four to five times faster than a liquid or pill because it's absorbed through tissues in the mouth -- not the gut, like in traditional formulations.

Dr. Gary Kamimori

Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they're gone.

Shelley Winters

North Americans do have a higher desire for very soft tissues.

Dave Dickson

I feel certain that in the next 25 years we will make significant progress in regenerating tissues.

Mark Ferguson

Every year, people pack thousands of disposable pens, razors, batteries, tissues and nappies - all things designed to be thrown away when they are finished with.

Julie Brown

These people are literally imprisoned in a second skeleton, ... It transforms muscles, tendons, ligaments -- connective tissues become sheathed in bone. It spans joints, locking them into place and rendering movement completely impossible.

Fred Kaplan

The tissues of the feet lose some of their elasticity, and the fat pad on the foot's bottom becomes thinner as people age.

Keith Kashuk

We found that, in animal models, injecting chemotherapy into the milk ducts confines most of the drug to the breasts, leaving other tissues unharmed.

Saraswati Sukumar

We know that mercury builds up in fish, especially fish higher up in the food chain. Mercury bio-accumulates in the tissues.

Jason Barbose

Of course, sodium is a vital constituent of the human body. Our tissues swim in a salty sea The more salt in that sea, the more water is needed to dilute it, to maintain the proper concentration of sodium.

Jane E. Brody

The liver takes up foreign substances in the body, so it's not surprising that that's where we saw the particles. But we ultimately want to be able to make these particles to go to the mammary glands or other tissues we're interested in.

Thomas Rosol

I could see a broader mobilization where people start saying, 'No, you can't take my tissues. All I can say is, we better deal with the problems now instead of waiting until that happens.

Kathy Hudson

Mary, a former student of mine, and I just broke bones up, dug things out of them and just destroyed bones, and she's very good at that, ... Mary's discoveries produced what appeared to be blood tissues and red blood cells, very similar to what we see in modern day ostriches.

Jack Horner