So I'll settle for challenging everyone who reads this to get on the Bone Marrow Registry.
This is because scientists rely on the bone retaining significant amounts of the protein collagen to test.
But many restaurants, pubs and butchers still offer beef on the bone, particularly to their regular customers.
The Tory party tabled a motion to lift the Westminster government's ban on sales of beef on the bone.
Before it was buried, a large rodent - probably a porcupine - gnawed on the bone, removing a significant portion of the face.
Neither was as good as my grilled turbot, a big slab of meaty white fish on the bone with sexy black grill marks like a fishnet stocking.
Jeremy Bailey, 36, who farms 750-acre Ford Farm near Salisbury, Wiltshire, said he anticipated a run on beef on the bone over the Christmas period.
Not to my surprise, the Strip, while very good, was the least outstanding, because the most flavorful steaks are always those cooked on the bone.
Cooking is usually carried out outdoors: hulled wheat, chunks of meat on the bone, onions, spices, water and oil are added to the cauldron and cooked all night.
He said the restaurant purchases Angus beef, a British breed, and with the British government's recent lifting of a ban on beef served on the bone, the ribs are proving extremely popular with customers.
The biggest reward of Amgen's early genome work, however, may be the osteoporosis drug dubbed AMG 162, based on the bone gene that Amgen lab coats were so surprised to discover in fetal rat intestines in 1995.
For my second try I braised the remaining racks of wild boar ribs, then cut them up and cooked them in a Chinese-style noodle soup, which would often contain chopped meats on the bone including pork ribs or duck or chicken.
Consumers who wish to exercise extra caution can follow the advice presented by the Web-based consumer advocacy group Consumeraffairs.com, which advises the avoidance of brains, neck bones and beef cheeks, bone marrow and cuts of beef that are sold on the bone.
The beef-on-the-bone ban was imposed on the industry in 1997 after fears over new variant CJD, suspected of being the human form of mad cow disease.
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Many of the defeats, for example on the beef-on-the-bone regulations or the arrangements for the referendums in Scotland, Wales and London, concerned matters on which any second chamber would probably have wished the government to rethink.
Thousands of people signed up to be on the National Bone Marrow registry.
All those being tested at the London club have agreed to being placed on the national bone marrow register so that if they're not a match for DJ Swing, they could potentially help someone else.
But even the agriculture ministry's own polls show that the beef-on-the-bone ban is hugely unpopular.
Earlier in the day, First Secretary Alun Michael had vociferously defended what many perceived to be a bad start for the Assembly with the controversy over the beef-on-the-bone ban, the appointment of a vegetarian agriculture secretary and a non-Welsh speaker as Welsh language minister.
On 1 February 2011, during the fifth day of debate at committee stage on the legislation, Mr Bone called on MPs to support his proposal, which would trigger a second referendum if the public voted "no" in a in a plebiscite triggered by the bill.
And many butchers said that they would continue to sell beef-on-the-bone.
All you need to do is start with dry aged beef, preferably an on-the-bone cut, which is more widely available than it ever has been before.
With some butchers reporting sales of beef-on-the-bone up to 30 times normal levels in the past week, customers may well have run out of room in the deep freeze.
The front room of the shop had been filled with the smell of meat, and my grandfather had stood and looked around at the hams and sausages hanging from the rafters, soup bones and square bacon slabs in the cold counter window, the skinned red lamb with its sharp little teeth lying on the block while Luka cleaved the bone of the leg away.
When she returned to competition, she carried on the court a small bottle containing the bone fragments cut from her ankle, just to remind her of how lucky she was to compete again.
Conservative MP Gary Streeter, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, told Mr Bone that "when the Electoral Commission was set up the House did not give it the power to direct returning officers".
"I think we're too often fixated on numbers, and not enough on what outcomes they relate to, " says Clifford Rosen, a top expert on bone disease at the Jackson Laboratory in Barr Harbor, Maine, who headed an FDA advisory panel on Avandia.
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