Comments on: How Do Scientists Get Ahold of Human Fat? Tummy Tucks. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/04/06/how-do-scientists-get-ahold-of-human-fat-tummy-tucks/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: cosmetic surgery http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/04/06/how-do-scientists-get-ahold-of-human-fat-tummy-tucks/#comment-35001 cosmetic surgery Fri, 05 Apr 2013 07:23:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=36256#comment-35001 Tummy tuck or Liposuction for shaping your body. Still can’t tone your abdominal region? Go for tummy tuck or liposuction in Cancun & Tijuana, Mexico. http://www.cosmetic-surgery-mexico.com/tummy_tuck.htm Tummy tuck or Liposuction for shaping your body. Still can’t tone your abdominal region? Go for tummy tuck or liposuction in Cancun & Tijuana, Mexico.
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]]> By: Sting99 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/04/06/how-do-scientists-get-ahold-of-human-fat-tummy-tucks/#comment-32348 Sting99 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:19:24 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=36256#comment-32348 Not only that all language is invented, we invent new words every day. After all there was a time when the ancestors of humans had no language. Words, slang, shortforms come into being with use all the time. Not only that all language is invented, we invent new words every day. After all there was a time when the ancestors of humans had no language. Words, slang, shortforms come into being with use all the time.

]]> By: MG http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/04/06/how-do-scientists-get-ahold-of-human-fat-tummy-tucks/#comment-32347 MG Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:45:19 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=36256#comment-32347 Bob: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ahold Pedantry is unbecoming, especially when incorrect. Bob: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ahold

Pedantry is unbecoming, especially when incorrect.

]]> By: Brian http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/04/06/how-do-scientists-get-ahold-of-human-fat-tummy-tucks/#comment-32346 Brian Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:36:13 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=36256#comment-32346 @Bob - AHOLD has been used since the 1800's (at least). Most dictionaries cite it as informal, but how formal should an article about harvesting body fat for research have to be? @Bob – AHOLD has been used since the 1800′s (at least). Most dictionaries cite it as informal, but how formal should an article about harvesting body fat for research have to be?

]]> By: Sara Greene http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/04/06/how-do-scientists-get-ahold-of-human-fat-tummy-tucks/#comment-32345 Sara Greene Sun, 08 Apr 2012 23:59:47 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=36256#comment-32345 Bob LaRouche- ahold [uh-hohld]   a·hold    [uh-hohld] noun 1. Informal . a hold or grasp (often followed by of ): He took ahold of my arm. Grab ahold! adverb 2. Nautical Archaic . close to the wind and on a single tack: to keep a vessel ahold. 3. Idiom . get ahold of, Informal . hold ( def. 51 ) . Origin: 1600–10; a-1 + hold1 (noun) Bob LaRouche-

ahold
[uh-hohld]  
a·hold
   [uh-hohld]
noun
1.
Informal . a hold or grasp (often followed by of ): He took ahold of my arm. Grab ahold!
adverb
2.
Nautical Archaic . close to the wind and on a single tack: to keep a vessel ahold.

3.
Idiom . get ahold of, Informal . hold ( def. 51 ) .
Origin:
1600–10; a-1 + hold1 (noun)

]]> By: Rinus http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/04/06/how-do-scientists-get-ahold-of-human-fat-tummy-tucks/#comment-32344 Rinus Sun, 08 Apr 2012 22:04:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=36256#comment-32344 The matter is as complicated when dealing with other types of donation. I'm a (blood) plasma donor, which is not as off-topic as it sounds. Where I live (the Netherlands) there is no compensation involved in donating plasma, yet I have to cope somehow with the ethical issue that the organisation responsible for handling my freely donated blood is making a fair amount of money off my body products. Some time ago, a group of donors discontinued donating when the salary of the CEO of this organisation became known. The thing you have to wrap your mind around is the issue that medical research and health care takes place (like any other business) in an economic system based on the exchange of money for products or services. In such a system, altruism in a (rightly so) tightly regulated quality control system can never exist without this system. It's how things work. How are we, as patients at the receiving end of the blood product line, to reward the CEO of the blood bank in thanks for blood products of the highest quality? Potatoes? Bricks for building a house? If his or her salary is cut, would (s)he stay? Would the quality stay guaranteed? I'm not saying it's right, nor do I want to be compensated (this would be worse, I believe), no matter how much money is made from my "good deed". I just picture, rather naïvely perhaps, my blood being accepted with extraordinary care and gratefulness and that some level of fairness is involved in the financial part with the people working professionally in the blood and body parts donation business. But in fairness, I do not expect it to go to the cosmetics industry. The matter is as complicated when dealing with other types of donation. I’m a (blood) plasma donor, which is not as off-topic as it sounds. Where I live (the Netherlands) there is no compensation involved in donating plasma, yet I have to cope somehow with the ethical issue that the organisation responsible for handling my freely donated blood is making a fair amount of money off my body products. Some time ago, a group of donors discontinued donating when the salary of the CEO of this organisation became known.

The thing you have to wrap your mind around is the issue that medical research and health care takes place (like any other business) in an economic system based on the exchange of money for products or services. In such a system, altruism in a (rightly so) tightly regulated quality control system can never exist without this system. It’s how things work. How are we, as patients at the receiving end of the blood product line, to reward the CEO of the blood bank in thanks for blood products of the highest quality? Potatoes? Bricks for building a house? If his or her salary is cut, would (s)he stay? Would the quality stay guaranteed?

I’m not saying it’s right, nor do I want to be compensated (this would be worse, I believe), no matter how much money is made from my “good deed”. I just picture, rather naïvely perhaps, my blood being accepted with extraordinary care and gratefulness and that some level of fairness is involved in the financial part with the people working professionally in the blood and body parts donation business. But in fairness, I do not expect it to go to the cosmetics industry.

]]> By: Chris@BorderWars http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/04/06/how-do-scientists-get-ahold-of-human-fat-tummy-tucks/#comment-32343 Chris@BorderWars Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:38:47 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=36256#comment-32343 Baby foreskins are routinely sold without robust knowledge or consent of the parent. And of course no knowledge or consent of the child. Muti-billion dollar a year business in skin grafts alone. Baby foreskins are routinely sold without robust knowledge or consent of the parent. And of course no knowledge or consent of the child. Muti-billion dollar a year business in skin grafts alone.

]]> By: Bob LaRouche http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/04/06/how-do-scientists-get-ahold-of-human-fat-tummy-tucks/#comment-32342 Bob LaRouche Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:44:23 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=36256#comment-32342 Oops - I doubled up words. Need a good copy editor. Oops – I doubled up words. Need a good copy editor.

]]> By: Bob LaRouche http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/04/06/how-do-scientists-get-ahold-of-human-fat-tummy-tucks/#comment-32341 Bob LaRouche Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:41:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=36256#comment-32341 I'm not qualified to comment on recycling belly fat; I'd gladly give mine away. But as a reasonably literate reader I must respond to your headline: AHOLD is not a word. It may be a mishmash used in casual conversation, but it is not correct English. It is like the "meet up," two words misused where one would do correctly. Please have your headlines reviewed by a copy editor. Your science may be admirable but you need a little help with your publication with publication niceties: your "best stories" jams type together so tightly I have given up trying to decipher the mess of letters. I’m not qualified to comment on recycling belly fat; I’d gladly give mine away. But as a reasonably literate reader I must respond to your headline: AHOLD is not a word. It may be a mishmash used in casual conversation, but it is not correct English. It is like the “meet up,” two words misused where one would do correctly. Please have your headlines reviewed by a copy editor.
Your science may be admirable but you need a little help with your publication with publication niceties: your “best stories” jams type together so tightly I have given up trying to decipher the mess of letters.

]]> By: David http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/04/06/how-do-scientists-get-ahold-of-human-fat-tummy-tucks/#comment-32340 David Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:01:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=36256#comment-32340 Utilizing human fat removed from a donors body is, at the very least, a much better option than testing products on living animals. Utilizing human fat removed from a donors body is, at the very least, a much better option than testing products on living animals.

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