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...seven years perfecting, could change the entire landscape of this field. He and his team were able to transform a small sample of rabbit penile tissue into a larger, realistic penis part. That part was then attached to the rabbits’ deficient penile tissue, and eventually the entire organ functioned with almost perfect normalcy. “They had the same activity, they had the same frequency, they had the same ability to penetrate, copulate and ejaculate,” Atala says...
...activities have violated the criminal laws of China,” said a staff member of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman’s Office who refused to provide his name. “The Beijing Public Security Organ has...according to law informed his family members...
...After a week or two of relative calm, the mosquito-borne illness is back in the headlines. The virus took the life of a 73-year-old Queens man Monday who died after two days in the hospital. In Georgia, concerns are mounting over organ donations and blood bank supplies after four organ recipients were treated for symptoms of the virus. One of the recipients died from brain swelling associated with the disease. Overall, this has been a tough year as far as West Nile virus is concerned; when it first appeared during the summer of 1999, it was contained...
...really know yet exactly what's happened. But with most self-limiting viruses, like this one, the virus clears itself out of the bloodstream when the patient recovers. So it's possible the donor was incubating the virus but wasn't manifesting symptoms, and the organ recipients ended up with symptoms because their immune systems were compromised. But I want to emphasize that we won't know anything for sure until we see more information...
FUNGAL FEVER Lethal fungus infections, once rare in the developed world, are spreading because of the rise of AIDS, chemotherapy and organ transplants. Antifungal drugs, however, often have terrible side effects. A new study shows that the drug voriconazole is more effective and results in fewer complications than standard treatments...