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...ease the massive shortage of requests for organ transplants, which currently stands at nearly 92,000, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. Organ requests outpace donations by nearly a two to one margin. In the study, seven children, aged 4 to 19, born with spina bifida, a spinal defect resulting in excessive bladder pressure and possible kidney damage, were involved in the study. Four years ago, they became the world’s first patients to receive laboratory-grown organs, and have been closely monitored by researchers to ensure the organs were accepted by the body. While...
...make a guess (about 10 years old, the FDA estimates). Investigators are also unsure where that cow, which was euthanized and buried after it fell sick, may have fed. This is crucial because the disease is believed to be spread in cattle feed carrying infected brain, bone or spinal tissue from other cows. Any cow that ate from the same troughs could be sick, too. According to research by New York biologist Michael Hansen, it takes less than a milligram of infected material to contract the disease. "This is a critical example of our failure to have an animal...
...bifida have been linked directly to the tortillas and other corn products in the diets of expectant mothers living along the Rio Grande. Missmer and her associates isolated fumonsin, a fungal toxin often found in American corn crops, as the likely cause of these infants’ cranial and spinal malformations. The study, conducted on mothers of babies born from the early 1990s to 2000, determined that overexposure to fumonsin inhibits fetal ability to absorb folic acid, a compound known to prevent NTDs. Co-author of the study, Lucina Suarez, who works with the Texas Department of State Health Services...
...Harvard and MIT, at a press conference announcing the USC Broad Institute last week. The Institute, which will be the largest stem cell research center in California, plans to revolutionize medical care by looking for cure for diseases like Parkinson’s, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and spinal cord injuries, Eli Broad said at the press conference. Broad also said he hopes the institute will serve as a catalyst in the economy of the biotech industry, “that it will foster the creation of jobs and encourage a robust tax base and have a far-reaching...
...made even more emotional because of the neck injury that sophomore Khaliq Gant suffered in practice on Tuesday, Jan. 24. The Big Red has now won both games played since the injury to Gant, who is being treated at Atlanta’s Shepard Spinal Clinic.“The past two weeks have been pretty unbelievable, but getting an emotional win like this against one of the top teams in the league, the way we did it was something I’ll remember for a long time,” Collins said. “If us playing...