Word: defectives
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...massive shortage of requests for organ transplants, which currently stands at nearly 92,000, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. Organ requests outpace donations by nearly a two to one margin. In the study, seven children, aged 4 to 19, born with spina bifida, a spinal defect resulting in excessive bladder pressure and possible kidney damage, were involved in the study. Four years ago, they became the world’s first patients to receive laboratory-grown organs, and have been closely monitored by researchers to ensure the organs were accepted by the body. While the results were...
...Environmental Health Perspectives.” The study—authored by Stacey A. Missmer of the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and a team of researchers here and in Texas—correlates the over-consumption of corn tortillas with neural-tube defects (NTDs) in unborn children. Often debilitating and sometimes fatal, NTDs such as anencephaly and spina bifida have been linked directly to the tortillas and other corn products in the diets of expectant mothers living along the Rio Grande. Missmer and her associates isolated fumonsin, a fungal toxin often found in American...
...reconciled with their expressed support for Roe v. Wade. In a Pew poll last October, a majority of Americans said they supported legal abortion only in the case of rape, when the mother's life or health is endangered or when there is a strong chance of serious birth defect...
...cord blood to save babies born with Krabbe disease, a rare and usually fatal genetic disorder. The illness, which prevents brain development and causes rapid deterioration and death, was immediately halted by transplanting another baby's cord blood--and the stem cells it contained-- into infants with the Krabbe defect...
...create a new stem cell line. The remaining seven cells retain the ability to implant into the uterus and develop into a normal fetus.The second method, known as alternative nuclear transfer and published by MIT researchers, creates embryonic cell lines from cells that were engineered to have a temporary defect in them, rendering them unable to implant into a uterus.Such cells are not implantable and thus a “non-viable artifact” that is therefore acceptable to experiment on, said William B. Hurlbut, a consulting professor in the human biology program at Stanford and a member...