Surrogate

... (ACT) of Worcester, Massachusetts, say they've got a peppy and "totally normal" banteng--a wild bovine from Java. It was born to a surrogate mother cow on 1 April. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2003/04/08-01.html - - - - - Hypothesis-observation-theory. The claim that all ...

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... are actually spore-like structures that release sperm which can move to find target (your facehugger) that in turn delivers its nucleus to the egg-surrogate cell (which happen to be one of human lung cell), etc…

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... chance of advancing this field. What is at stake is a more practical question — namely, has genomics provided evidence that race can act as a surrogate for genetic constitution in medicine or public health? Our answer is no. Race, at the continental level, has not been shown to provide a useful ...

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... has been admitted as the reason for higher cell counts in treated patients. As for the testing of the progression of 'the disease' there are two surrogate markers, viral load and t-cell count. The count of t-cells in healthy people can vary widely, and its response to protocol has been considered. ...

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Well, I hadn't thought quite that far: having pigs as surrogate mothers. But who knows, it might even be possible in some odd future scenario :P

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