Will they preserve, for example, the stomach-stapling operation of Carnie Wilson, the pop singer, broadcast last year on AdoctorinyourHouse.com?
Although several groups have shown that perfusion decellularization can be applied to porcine liver [ 9– 11], further refinement is required in order to ensure that the scaffolds are of reproducible quality, that they are sterile, and that they are preserved for further processing.
Should they be covered in again, or should they be preserved for posterity, and if preserved, what degree of conservation and restoration is permissible?
Moreover, scientists still do not know when continents first formed, how they remained preserved for billions of years, or how they are likely to evolve in the future.
The BBC, remembered Marcia Williams, Wilson's right-hand woman, had been behaving "in the spirit of the independent empire that they had preserved for themselves".
They were preserved for future generations only by the quick thinking of New Oxford American Dictionary lexicographers, who rapidly made "refudiate" a real word.
These specimens must be held in museums (typically, though there are some exceptions) where they can be accessed by other researchers and will be kept in the appropriate conditions to ensure they are preserved for posterity.
Fortunately for science, the insects, still in the grip of what passes for passion among froghoppers, sank to the bottom of a lake where they were preserved for the ages under layers of ash and sediment.
They are areas with irreplaceable ecological, landscape-aesthetic, social, cultural, historical and production values, and it is imperative that they are preserved for future generations as a memorial of the past.
DF: Well, because when someone dies young, they're preserved for all time in their youthful state.
