Dear Conner, We’re thinking about you constantly. It seems that your cells lack the ability to produce a protein called “nuclear factor kappa B” and are not able to send defense signals to the cell nucleus. The cells from your donor will restore the function of your blood cells, they will come in a plastic…
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Daley @ You Tube
Children’s Hospital Boston researcher George Daley, MD, PhD, sheds new light on the now discredited Korean embryonic stem cell lines. In this clip, Daley discusses the three ways to make embryonic stem cells and how the Korean stem cells were actually created through parthenogenesis, a process that creates an embryo from an unfertilized egg. Watch…
Marcia Boyle from the Immune Deficiency Foundation calls for Action.
Take Action The Time is Now! – Contact Your Senators Take Action! Encourage Your Senators to Include a Medicare IVIG Provision in Medicare Legislation This Year It is critical that you immediately contact your Senators and ask them to fix the IVIG problem this year and to include a fix in any Medicare legislation that…
Sydney offers $500K grant to the first scientist to produce stem cells from cloned human embryos
Story via Daily Telegraph here. $500K for stem cell breakthrough SYDNEY could become the first city in the world to produce stem cells from cloned human embryos with a $500,000 grant being offered by Premier Morris Iemma to the first scientist to do it. With laws lifted on the previously illegal practice, the State Government…
Conner
Article via Journal & Courier here. Conner’s website here. Road to curing Conner leads to upcoming transplant By DOROTHY SCHNEIDER It was just a common cold that landed Conner Smith in the hospital about 3 1/2 years ago. But his body couldn’t fight off the germs. Doctors soon discovered the Lafayette boy had an immune…
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Bone marrow match found for Rhys @ BBC News
A bone marrow match has been found in the United States for a six-year-old south Wales boy with a rare disease affecting his immune system. After a worldwide search for a donor, Rhys Harris, from Newbridge, in Caerphilly county, will undergo treatment in Newcastle in September. Even though the match is not perfect, the donor’s…
Kids conceived by IVF may be taller than others
According to this article Sofia will be 3 cm. taller than the average kid… By Karla Gale NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children born as a result of in vitro fertilization (IVF) appear to be slightly taller than naturally conceived children, investigators in New Zealand report. IVF has been used for nearly 3 decades, but…
Paraskavedekatriaphobia
The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia (a word that is derived from the concatenation of the Greek words Παρασκευή, δεκατρείς, and φοβία, meaning Friday, thirteen, and phobia respectively; alternative spellings include paskevodekatriaphobia or paraskevidekatriaphobia, and is a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a phobia (fear) of the number thirteen. More here.
Rhys found a donor!
I received this email from Rhys (www.cure4rhys.org) ad a couple of days ago: I have just had a phone call from Newcastle!!? They have found a match for Rhys in America, not perfect but good enough for them to reserve it! We still have the World Record to break on Thursday for others so I…