Last Saturday we went to Quincy Market and it was a very pleasant surprise to find Lissa. Lissa was one of Andy’s nurses during transplant. You may remember her from the Kelli and Lissa signs post a few months ago.. Here’s a cameraphone picture of Lissa and Andy @ Quincy Market,
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Happy birthday JACK!
Jack turns THREE! Picture at the cure4jack blog. Congratulations!
Reyli Barba
Contribución de Lupita Z. de d’Argence “Arababasei” significa en un idioma raro “bienaventurado seas” eso el me lo explico y es el coro de su cancion mas famosa.
Katrina – Red Cross
Victims of Hurricane Katrina are attempting to recover from the massive storm that is still making its way across the Mid-Atlantic States. American Red Cross volunteers have been deployed to the hardest hit areas of Katrina’s destruction, supplying hundreds of thousands of victims left homeless with critical necessities. These funds will help the Red Cross…
Billy Ripken
William Oliver Ripken Contribution of Roberta Whalen
CURE 4 JACK!
A month ago I published here the story about Jack Hagelin from New Jersey who also has a NEMO mutation. Since then I’ve been in contact with Roy and Charlotte, Jack’s parents and I offered them a website for Jack hosted on a internet server thanks to the generosity of the company I work for…
Update for day THREE HUNDRED AND FIVE
I stepped on Andy’s foot and caused a minimal fracture. And I feel bad.. He didn’t even say ouch. He’s so used to pain. Andy has to wear a strap-on boot for two weeks. It’s a minimal hairline size fracture on his right foot.
New strategy for making embryonic stem cells @ HSCI
Harvard Stem Cell Institute August 22, 2005: A new study by Kevin Eggan, Douglas Melton, and colleagues offers hope that it might be possible in the future to produce embryonic stem cells without using human embryos. The Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers will report in the Aug. 26 edition of the journal Science that it…
What would Ghandi say about stem cells? via IHT
Of stem cells, what would Gandhi say? By Pankaj Mishra The New York Times MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2005 … American scientists and businessmen note enviously that religious and moral considerations do not seem to inhibit Indian biotechnologists. But this indifference to ethical issues would have certainly appalled Gandhi, father of the Indian nation. Gandhi accused…
PGD for cancer @ BBC News
Doctors have been given permission to screen a woman’s embryos for a rare form of eye cancer. Angela Donovan had retinoblastoma as a child and passed on the gene to her first son, Kieran, who underwent chemotherapy to get rid of the cancer. Fertility experts at University College Hospital London will test her embryos to…