She cuts the umbilical cord with a stick, and ties it with her own hair.

However, still, as you can see, it has a cord, umbilical cord. So, we're still using an external power source and external computation.

It thus permits and encourages research on adult and umbilical cord stem cells, which has already obtained many positive results without raising any of the ethical issues related to cloning.

I step off, I'm standing on the platform, and I feel my index finger in the first scar that I ever got, from my umbilical cord, and then around that, is traced the last scar that I got from my surgeon, and I think that, that chance encounter with those kids on the street with their knives

Cutting the umbilical cord in a relationship of aid dependency is never easy, and there is no reason to expect that it will be any different with Greece. Phasing out transfers, even in a considered and systematic way, works only when the recipient is determined to put in place the measures necessary to survive without assistance.

One in five human genes is now patented, even though the human genome might be thought to be our common heritage. And although Boyle doesn t mention this latest development, umbilical cord blood, taken in the final stage of labor, is now banked by profit making firms as a potential though unlikely source of stem cells for the baby.

This is a photo that I made showing one of these pups that's only about five or seven days old still has a little bit of the umbilical cord on its belly that has fallen in because of the thin ice, and the mother is frantically trying to push it up to breathe and to get it back to stable purchase.