And there could be risks we don't know about: could moving the genetic material of one person to another also transfer unwanted characteristics, like a propensity toward diabetes or cancer?
As a result, instead of having access to just a few human genomes — the complete genetic material of a person, including genes and regions that control genes — researchers can now study tens of thousands of them, along with clinical data on peoples' health and how they fared on various treatments.
During the 1976 Christmas holidays, a CDC laboratory scientist, using simple microbiologic methods, injected guinea pigs with material from persons who died of Legionnaires' disease.
Literary allegories typically describe situations and events or express abstract ideas in terms of material objects, persons, and actions.
Material from persons admitted to the Detoxification Unit was collected at the second day of the abstinence period.
Using the "Quebec Model" [ 20], six indicators of material and social deprivation (proportion of persons with a high school diploma, employment/population ratio, average income, proportion of persons living alone, proportion of single parent families, and proportion of separated, divorced, and widowed persons) were extracted from census data.
Following Rose, biomedical technologies are assemblages of material objects, knowledge, persons and systems of judgements, which in their practice are culturally framed by certain presuppositions and assumptions about human beings [ 10].
The Jesuits, having taken vows of poverty, hoped the building would "make use of materials that a person of modest means could obtain," Father Sunghera says.
She then shifts her analysis of worth to market value, examining the notion of worth as determined by the value of material, labor, and in the case of persons, the vital importance of education ("Education, then, is the safest and richest investment possible to man" [VAJC, 168]).
For material deprivation, the variables are proportion of persons lacking a high school diploma, employment to population ratio, and average income.
The system is specifically designed for the surveillance of entrance areas in transportation access facilities and consists of multiple heterogeneous sensors: Chemical sensors detecting hazardous materials provide data for the classification of persons.
