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...While enrofloxacin kills the type of bacteria that sickened the chickens, it doesn't quite eliminate a different strain, called Campylobacter, that lives in the intestine. The surviving germs, which don't cause any poultry diseases, quickly multiply and spread the genes that helped them fend off the antibiotic. Six weeks later, when the broilers are carved up at the slaughterhouse, resistant bacteria spill out everywhere. Even with the best sanitary controls, some campylobacter is shrink-wrapped along with the thighs, breasts and drumsticks that are delivered to your kitchen counter...
...Scientists used cloning methods to locate and remove the GGTA1 gene from the pigs. GGTA1 is one of two genes that trigger the human immune response and resulting organ rejection. If a strain of pig is developed that lacks these genes, scientists believe that they could harvest their vital organs, such as the heart and lungs, and use them successfully in human patients. Such a process could shorten the wait for organ transplants, saving human lives. There are currently almost 80,000 people in need of organs for transplant in the U.S., according to the United Network for Organ Sharing...
...first weeks, Mrs. Bush was happy that there was no "immediate retaliation." Revealing a strain of pacifism, she says, "I knew the President would do the right thing, but like a lot of women, I was hoping that was going to be nothing." A few days before he authorized the bombing of Afghanistan, the President confided his decision to Mrs. Bush. They stuck to their plan to have close Texas friends go to Camp David that weekend (lest the terrorists win), although they would now be joined by the national security team (who helped the President put together a jigsaw...
...reflection in the Arab press, asking what Arab jihadists are doing exporting their problems to places like Afghanistan and the West; wondering why the Arab world uniquely has not developed a single real democracy; and asking, most fundamentally, how a great religion like Islam could have harbored a malignant strain that would rejoice in the death of 3,000 innocents. It is the kind of questioning that Europeans engaged in after World War II (asking how Fascism and Nazism could have been bred in the bosom of European Christianity) but that was sadly lacking in the Islamic world. Until...
...According to scientists familiar with the manufacturing of weapons-grade anthrax, the investigation is likely to be frustrating, simply because so many agencies and individuals are familiar with the process, and have access to this specific strain of the bacteria...