Jordan S Orange and Raquel P. Deering just published a new article at the Clinical Vaccine Immunology journal where they talk about a test to evaluate primary immune deficiencies like NEMO where cells are unable to recognize certain disease-producing micro-organisms. Just imagine! Andy had to deal with infections for two years before finding his diagnosis,…
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Sofia climbed jumped out of her crib today
She started walking when she was nine months old. She’s twenty two months old now and already climbing jumping out of her crib. She did it twice today. “Mamá, Mamá, Sofia se bajó de su cuna!!” Andy shouted (Mom, Mom, Sofia climbed down from her crib).
Dr. Orange article cited by 28
Dr. Orange’s article published back in June 2002 at the Journal of Clinical Investigation has been cited twenty eight times according to Google Scholar. The title of the article was Deficient natural killer cell cytotoxicity in patients with IKK-gamma/NEMO mutations. Andy’s cells were used for that article. Find all the versions of the article here….
PI is sort of like cancer but with less pampering.
Primary immune deficiency is sort of like cancer. It’s the immune system that allows the uncontrolled, abnormal growth of cells.To prevent cancer you need a good immune system, no doubt about it. Cancer as a immune deficiency sounds coherent. I ran this experiment today, I did a Google search for “cancer” and I got 306,000,000…
Literary depth… The New Yorker
OK, I found the SHOUTS & MURMURS section at The New Yorker. Still thinking about literary depth… I suppose this is literary depth: A Mother’s Story by PAUL RUDNICK Issue of 2005-05-23 Posted 2005-05-16 Parents would certainly deny it, but Canadian researchers have made a startling assertion: parents take better care of pretty children than…
Literary depth… The New Yorker
I must admit, I’ve never read one single page of The New Yorker.. Founded in 1925, The New Yorker hardly changed for its first 60 years, both in its dry, type-heavy design and in its reputation as a writer’s and reader’s haven. In 1987 it was on only its second editor when management decided to…
Oreck + Wiva-Vac
Andy and I used to play with the suction machine in his hospital room during his transplant. The official use of that suctioning machine is to clear pieces of tissue and blood coming out of the patient’s mouth when they get mucositis. We had another use for the machine.. We used it almost on a…
Literary depth
Here’s some recent comments to the book from a respected publisher: I’ve looked through the material you sent me about Andy Trevino’s illness and the family’s tremendous efforts to help him survive. It is certainly a powerful story–one that interweaves personal efforts with cutting edge science and medicine. That said, I don’t think this is…
While looking back ’05
While looking back, I forgot to say that on June 18th. 2005 we walked with ‘Hannah’s Hopefuls’ Thank you Mom..
Scientists forced back to the drawing board @ The Guardian
In yesterdays The Guardian in the UK Science editor Robin McKie talks about the cloning scandal and about Hwang’s immense promise and hopes being dashed. By making cloned embryos of adult humans, they would create a source of cells that could replace damaged or lost tissue. The ravaged brains of Alzheimer’s victims would one day…