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What interests me, ... is why people are so repelled when, after all, everyone started life attached. In a sense, the twins have never been born because they are still tied by an umbilical cord. Relationships between women - daughters, mothers, friends - are one of my strong interests.

Judith Rossner

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.

Kirk Hammett

More often than not, this rich stem cell source is discarded as medical waste after childbirth, ... This pioneering initiative will enable us to pursue all options -- umbilical, placental and embryonic -- and let science point the way to stem cell cures, offering hope to the millions of people that suffer from life-threatening conditions.

Richard Codey

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

John Gregory Dunne

She sat there and consciously made the decision to sit there for 10 minutes while the baby laid inside the toilet. Moments later she then used a pair of scissors to remove the child's umbilical cord, and then waited an additional 10 minutes before pulling the child out of the toilet and wrapping her in a towel.

Liz Calzadilla

When I hit that note - if I hit it correctly - I'm just as important as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, or anybody. Because when I hit that note, I hit the umbilical cord of anybody who is listening.

Carlos Santana

Provided that research advances to the point that we can demonstrate these cells' true therapeutic benefit, parents could conceivably choose to bank their child's amniotic epithelial cells in the event they may someday be needed, as is sometimes done now with umbilical cord blood.

Stephen Strom

It's almost an umbilical cord. And that's helped strengthen what the agency's done.

Walter Pincus

This is wonderful news for the many thousands of suffering patients who can benefit from umbilical cord blood stem cell treatments.

Richard Doerflinger

What's new here is not the use of umbilical cord blood in the treatment of a life-threatening disease, but it's the way the transplant was engineered and the way the baby was conceived.

John Wagner