Mr. Rodney Ghali: Well, say you have a dish of human liver cells and you want to study the effect of this one gene on liver cells.

For example, when I was using the example of the liver cells or kidney cells, you can introduce, say, a mouse gene into a human cell while that human cell is in culture.

There is a recently written report from Spain showing that aspartame formaldehyde accumulates in cells, something that may destroy DNA and, for example, cause liver or brain damage, especially in the case of people vulnerable to such damage.

Multipotent stem cells can only produce the cells of a certain tissue type, such as nerve, liver or blood cells.

Whereas, by letter dated 13 July 1982, Italy has requested the Commisson to invoke the procedure provided for in Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 2784/79 in order to determine whether or not the apparatus described as 'Beckman - Gamma Counter, model Gamma 9000', ordered on 30 October 1979 and to be used for the transport of phospholipids from microsomes to other components in the hepatic cell and in particular for the simultaneous measurement of the concentration of at least two hormones, should be considered to be a scientific apparatus and, where the reply is in the affirmative, whether apparatus of equivalent scientific value is curre ...[+++]ntly being manufactured in the Community;