Messing with the Blood-Brain Barrier May Be Key to Treating a Host of Diseases (preview) During one of his famous staining experiments of the late 1800s--the kind that would eventually lead to a cure for syphilis and a Nobel Prize for Medicine--Paul Ehrlich stumbled on a conundrum that would haunt medicine down to the present day. When he injected dye into the bloodstream of mice, it penetrated every organ except the brain. Kidneys, livers and hearts turned a dark purplish-blue ...
June 12, 2013 - Scientific American
Tom Tancredo in Jackson Clarion Ledger Tancredo, the founder and former chairman of the House Immigration Reform caucus, said Ramos had one bruise that "starts at the top of a shoulder and goes all the way to the elbow. It is very deep, a purplish, red, very deep bruise."
Larry Sabato in International Herald Tribune Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said: "This is going to encourage the purplization of red states. It's going to make red states purplish over time."