In seeing different specialists, I met one doctor Dr. Steven Zeitels from the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital Voice Center who is really excited about the potential to improve vocal cord nerve function.
They will organize calculations running on more than 2 million personal computers, each of which will see if potential drugs block proteins that the smallpox virus requires to function.
According to Newman, calling ahead for advice is the best way to avoid the potential embarrassment of over- or under-dressing at an unfamiliar business casual function.
Another potential rub in welcoming world finance is the rule-of-law problem: Capital markets function on trust, and welshing on derivatives contracts, for example, is not conducive to bringing big money to the mainland.
There is potential that stem cells could help replace diseased, damaged or dying cells and contribute towards improved function of that person's organs, possibly representing a cure for the disease from which they suffered.