[LMB] Bujold tech in the news

[A. Marina Fournier]

At 12:43 -0800 1/2/08, Lois Fundis wrote:
>According to this article
>http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080201/ts_nm/finland_stemcells_dc
>"Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a
>65-year-old patient's upper jaw with a bone transplant
>cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty
>tissue and grown inside his abdomen."

This might have made a major difference in a late professor's life. 
Karen Kossuth, a professor and advisor of mine at Pomona College, 
died rather than accept a titanium jaw after a surgery she declined. 
Chemo did not work well enough, but the idea of a metal jaw for a 
speaker or singer really bothered her.
-- 
A. Marina Fournier, The (Re)Sourceress Campbell CA
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