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...used animal-based growth factors and feeder cells to sustain the growing egg, but that creates problems if the cells are going to be used to treat humans. So Hwang has concocted a growth medium made of human-based nutrients, starting with human skin cells from one of the donor subjects...
...have no such demands of the University, so I did not actively participate in an alternative gift. I was not identified or screened or rated as a potential Associates-level donor, so I am not subject to that series of arguments. I am merely a target for the formidable peer pressure apparatus of the participation drive...
There has so far been just one remark able success in the otherwise losing battle to contain the spread of AIDS. That is the rapid development of tests to detect signs of the virus in donor blood. About 2% of AIDS cases in the U.S. have occurred as a result of the contamination of blood used in transfusions or in blood products like the clotting factor needed by hemophiliacs. The toll includes infants, children, even a 66-year...
...likely to develop the disease. Nonetheless, the perception persists that the tests can be used for diagnosis. Health officials fear that homosexuals and other high-risk individuals will volunteer to give blood simply to get themselves tested. This would increase the chances that AIDS-contaminated blood could enter the donor supply through a slipup or a faulty test reading...
...keep tainted blood away from the donor centers, the CDC is setting up alternative sites where people at high risk for AIDS can take the test with assurance that the results will remain confidential. Whether tests are administered there or at donor centers, one dilemma remains: how to relate the frightening news to someone whose blood has tested positive, and to interpret that finding...