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Article: BOSTON TEAM UNVEILS PLAN TO RESTORE DAMAGED VOCAL CORDS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 14, 2002
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NEW YORK - An elite team of Boston scientists yesterday unveiled a
broad effort to help restore one of the body's most heavily used but
delicate attributes: the human voice.
With $2 million in new grants, researchers from four major Boston
institutions described how they are applying disciplines as diverse
as tissue engineering, surgery and bridge building to the challenging
art of repairing vocal cords.
It is a cause personified by Julie Andrews, the film and stage
star whose singing career ended in the late 1990s after an operation
on her vocal cords resulted in significant damage.
"I've been singing and acting all my life, and the loss of my
singing gift was a difficult chapter for me," ...