The Apligraf website informs us that one foreskin produces 200,000 patches. When cut the patch heals itself. Novartis Pharmaceutical's, which markets Apligraf, is also involved in xenotransplantation research through a subsidiary company, Imutran . Novartis already owns the rights to the most commonly administered anti-rejection drug, Cyclosporine A. This combination of transgenic organ transplants in concert with immune suppressant drugs greatly increases the risk of releasing xenotropic retroviruses into human and animal populations. On the net, as in the mind, every word has links to multiple others, and each of these to many more.
Writing is one of the means by which particular subjective networks of associations can be mapped.
At the moment of writing a field of communication is open between one's internal net of links and those beyond the screen. The conceptual difficulty in imagining Silicom is that it must be both language and surface, code and substance. And it must be sensitive. Unthinking our common sense notions of skin is essential for its development. Skin', Marenko writes, 'is the first and foremost object of vision, the visible manifestation of an embodied reality.