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...month after performing the whole-ovary transplant, Silber tried the same procedure on a set of nonidentical twins for the first time. The recipient of the ovary, a San Francisco woman named Joy Lagos, had become infertile after cancer treatment. But the hope was that because Lagos had received a bone-marrow transplant from her older sister as part of that treatment - which transformed Lagos' immune system into a chimera, or hybrid, of her sister's and her own cells - her combination immune system would stand a far better chance of accepting her sister's ovary without the need...
...prospect of a lifetime of drug therapy and its impact on the patient need to be heavily weighed, he says. "I suppose you could say, 'She could have the transplant, try to get pregnant and later have it removed, and then stop the immunosuppression.' " But that course of treatment may stretch the boundaries of what is medically ethical and reasonable for the patient. "It becomes very tricky," he says...
...Tricky and possibly unrealistic, says Dr. Mitchell Rosen, director of the Fertility Preservation Center and Reproductive Laboratories at the University of California, San Francisco. "I don't think it would be used as a mainstream form of fertility treatment," he says. "I don't think it's going to replace IVF." Though he acknowledges the powerful desire to conceive the old-fashioned way, he points out that compared with the transplant process - finding an organ donor, enduring a long surgery and facing the possibility of a lifetime of drug therapy - IVF offers a simpler, more logical route. (Read "The Year...
...With the bold support for stem cell research this memorandum provides, however, researchers and the public should remember other possible sources of stem cells and types of research for disease treatment. Given the divisiveness of this issue, support for non-embryonic stem cell research should also remain. Fortunately, this memorandum will set the tone for all types of scientific research throughout the administration. “I would simply say that this memorandum is not concerned solely—or even specifically—with stem cell research,” said Harold Varmus, chairman of the White Houses?...
...courtesy of Countrywide, one of the biggest pushers of the subprime mortgages that have landed the U.S. economy in such dire straits. Connecticut officials say there is no evidence of wrongdoing, and Dodd, who has allowed reporters limited access to his mortgage documents, denies he got any preferential treatment and insists he is going to refinance with a different bank. (Dodd allowed reporters one-time access to hundreds of pages of his mortgage documents. Reporters were not allowed to copy or photograph the documents and staff remained present throughout the viewing). "I made the mistake of not addressing it earlier...