All that changed last year as a series of miscues seemed to turn Mr. Crosson's Teflon into tissue paper.
Such cells would grow into tissue matching that of the patient, so the patient's immune system would not reject transplants.
As light penetrates deeper into tissue, the resulting ultrasonic signal diminishes.
The bacteria that cause the disease, known as spirochete, they say, can bore so deeply into tissue that they evade initial treatments and remain infectious.
Other die-hards have fashioned discarded eMacs into pet beds, G4 towers into mailboxes, G5 towers into outdoor benches and G4 Cube computers into tissue boxes.
The report says: "The doctor checked the IV and reported the blood vein had collapsed, and the drugs had either absorbed into tissue, leaked out or both.
"The drugs had either absorbed into tissue, leaked out or both," wrote the Oklahoma prisons director, Robert Patton in the timeline.
But we also learned that the newer chemicals, which were supposed to break down faster, were still bio-accumulating, meaning they were being absorbed into tissue.
Some steroids convert food into tissue, particularly muscle, and such anabolic steroids can damage kidneys, harden arteries and increase blood pressure.
However, this does not translate into tissue level alterations.
The resected samples were formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded into tissue blocks.
