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Although the current threat of avian flu may have passed before the next-generation vaccines make it to market, the work won't be wasted. The upgrade will make even the annual flu vaccines more effective and will prepare us better for when the next pandemic threat looms. CURRENT METHOD: EGG CULTURE Virus is purified and chemically killed to produce the vaccine Virus --> Virus is grown in fertilized chicken eggs --> Vaccine NEW METHOD: HUMAN-CELL CULTURE Virus is killed and processed to produce the vaccine Virus --> Cell --> Virus is grown in human-cell culture --> Vaccine GENETIC METHOD: DNA VACCINES...
...Beware of pop-up ads that ask you to "click here." Just clicking on a link embedded in an ad can trigger a spyware download and installation, a delivery method known as a "drive...
...unnerved by your referring to Snuppy as an invention. The cloning technique is remarkable, without a doubt, but it is wrong to classify a cloned creature as an invention. Doing so somehow implies that a clone is different and inferior to other living creatures merely because the method of creation was changed. A clone is just another member of its species. Laura White Folsom, California, U.S. Snuppy, the dog cloned by South Korean scientists, was a disturbing choice for Time's Invention of the Year. The cloning of mammals has an extremely low success rate, and experience suggests that Snuppy...
...electricity and the backup generators flooded, the staff got news from the hospital's lone ham radio. At one point, a helicopter rescue was planned, with a pickup point atop Tulane University Hospital, three blocks away. Nurses carrying babies boarded rowboats--respirating the sickest ones by "hand bagging," a method of forcing air into the lungs. But the helicopter was commandeered for another mission, and the nurses returned with their swaddled patients. "The staff was just emotionally drained. They're crying and upset as they came back," says Gibson. She walked the units to reassure them. "They needed to look...
...funds, "it's the most important organization in the world," says former President Jimmy Carter. The Carter Center, which has been working to eradicate guinea worm disease since 1986, received a pledge of $25 million from the foundation this year. "We've been intimately acquainted with their method of operation, the thorough investigation they do before they make a decision, their willingness to take a chance, their willingness to stick to something once it's begun and the extremely high competence of their top people," says Carter. "They know what they're doing...