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...scattered clouds floated 1,200 ft. above the Huntsville International Airport. The sky was clear for miles. But just south of town, a low cloud swept in over Sam Houston National Forest. The fog already had thwarted another helicopter pilot who had tried to fly a patient from Huntsville Memorial Hospital to Houston. Blinded by the fog, that pilot was forced to turn around and abort the mission. Ninety minutes after that, Kirby was asked to fly the same patient to Houston...
Before that can happen, however, Melton wants to learn more about how diseases develop. And iPS cells make that possible too. For the very first time, he can watch Type 1 diabetes unfold in a petri dish as a patient's cells develop from their embryonic state into mature pancreatic cells. The same will be true for other diseases as well. "There is a good reason we don't have treatments for diseases like Parkinson's," says Melton. "That's because the only way science can study them is to wait until a patient appears in the office with symptoms...
...that potential - and with it, the prospect of successful treatments for conditions like Parkinson's or diabetes - may still be a few years away. Even iPS cells have yet to prove that they are a safe and suitable substitute for the diseased cells they might eventually replace in a patient. Ensuring their safety would require doing away with dangerous genes that can also cause cancer, as well as the retroviral carriers that Yamanaka originally used. Melton's team has already replaced two of the genes with chemicals, and he anticipates that the remaining ones will be swapped...
...July Kevin Eggan at Harvard generates the first patient-specific cells from iPS cells - motor neurons from two elderly women with...
...According to my clandestine sources close to the Penn team, the Quakers should do well if they realize they aren’t playing the supremely athletic teams they battled in non-conference and are more patient on offense. Also, they need to guard Alex Barnett. Penn should learn from Harvard’s mistake last weekend when Barnett scored 30, and also take advantage of its balanced offense with guard Tyler Bernardini and forwards Brendan Votel and Jack Eggleston all averaging double figures in scoring. Visitors by seven...