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...undeterred by controversy not just over the cost of the surgery and the source of the cells (the Terpstras say at least something good is coming from the terminations) but over the science underpinning the treatment. There's some evidence in animal studies that oegs, which are key helper cells in the nose, can also help spinal-cord nerve fibers regenerate. But Huang's use of the unproven procedure on human beings, without using control groups as comparisons or studying patients' progress after treatment, disturbs scientists and MND and paralysis support groups around the world...
...more than 100 cases of what was already being called the gay plague (despite the fact that at least six patients said they were heterosexuals and one was a woman). What they had in common was something Gottlieb observed in the first four cases, "a near wipe-out" of helper T cells, a class of white blood cells that plays a central role in orchestrating the body's immune defenses...
Though AIDS sufferers have yet to benefit from the Franco-American "miracle," research on the virus has shed considerable light on the nature of their disease and why it so devastates the immune system. The virus launches a direct attack on helper T cells (or T lymphocytes, as they are also known), invading them in much the same way that the hepatitis virus homes in on cells in the liver. Once ensconced in the T cell, explains Dr. Clifford Lane of the National Institutes of Health, the AIDS virus prevents this vital cell from doing its job as "the initiator...
...biology," says Haseltine. "It helps explain why AIDS is such a devastating disease and why it can spread so fast." In the process of rampant replication, the AIDS virus destroys its home, the T cell. Thus it is a peculiar feature of this disease that as it progresses, the helper T cells disappear and so does the virus. By then, however, the patient is invariably beyond recovery...
Seeing Enos Slaughter of the Cardinals run out a walk to first base, Rose resolved that he would do that every time if he ever made it to pro ball. Rose's uncle Curley Smart was a clubhouse helper for the Redlegs and helped Pete into an extra uniform. While still in high school, Rose became a familiar figure around the team, having a catch with Johnny Temple or Roy McMillan. Signed eventually at the age of 19 by Buddy Bloebaum, another uncle, Rose took just three years in the minors to turn into an annoying presence at Reds training...