BBC News website meets the man who has helped families to have genetically-matched babies to treat sick siblings. Dr Yury Verlinsky was amongst the first in the world, and the first in the US, to introduce chorionic villus sampling (CVS) – a way to diagnose conditions while babies are still in the womb. He then…
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Stem cells tailored to patients @ BBC News
More from yesterdays news regarding patient specific stem cells via BBC news. Read the article here.
Patient specific stem cell first @ BBC News
South Korean scientists say they have made stem cells tailored to match the individual for the first time. Each of the 11 new stem cell lines that they made were created by taking genetic material from the patient and putting it into a donated egg. The resultant cells were a perfect match for the individual…
Making cells to cure blood disease @ IHT
Very good article by Gareth Cook at the International Herald Tribune talking about Children’s Hospital Boston plans to clone human cells. Consider the case of a boy with sickle cell anemia, a potentially lethal disease in which a genetic defect causes red blood cells to form improperly. The scientists envision taking a skin cell from…
andy.org.mx health news feeds
There’s a lot of places on the Internet that I visit searching for information regarding primary immune deficiency, ectodermal displasia, infectious diseases, stem cell transplants, and medicine in general. I decided to put all of them together at the andy medical news, news feeds from The New York Times, Wired, BBC News, Reuters, Yahoo, NewScientist,…
Concern over cord blood banking @ BBC News
The BBC is looking at the issues surrounding storing or banking cord blood. The blood is a rich source of stem cells, which may one day be used to treat diseases such as leukaemia. Private companies offer a banking service for concerned parents. But doctors have voiced concern about playing on parents fears, and the…
The book
I’m writing a book! Paulina remembers more things than I do, she has a better memory(among lots of other things). I constantly go to Paulina with questions looking for more details so when I say ‘I” it really means ‘We’. I (we) started to write formally around February 23rd. 2005 after Andy’s last hospitalization. I…
El Tio Victor habla del “Nino Naranja” en el Radio
El Tío Victor hablo ayer en el radio sobre Andy! EL NIÑO NARANJA 04 DE MAYO DEL 2005 VICTOR TREVIÑO ……….. HAN PASADO 185 DIAS DESDE EL TRANSPLANTE Y ANDY TIENE YA TRES SEMANAS QUE GRACIAS A SU NUEVO SISTEMA INMUNOLOGICO NO NECESITA DE MEDICINAS PARA MANTENERSE SANO. SU NUEVO SISTEMA INMUNOLOGICO LO ESTA DEFENDIENDO!…
The Stem Cell Debate @ The Boston Globe
By Gareth Cook 2005 Pulitzer Prize Incredible source of information regarding stem cells and the debate here. Graphics about stem cells. Stem Cell links. The human face of stem cells research (pictures). Parents taking their children with muscular dystrophy to a clinic in Kiev for a embryonic stem cell infusion. And more.
Running for Andy @ Children’s News
Kelli and Andy on the April lissue of Children’s News! Published monthly by the Department of Public Affairs for Children’s Hospital Boston employees, staff, volunteers and visitors. Running for Andy Children’s Hospital Boston’s Kelli Cole, RN, has been running the Boston Marathon for the past three years. But this year the race is more than…