Rat droppings from New York City. Feces at a Wisconsin dog park. Human waste in a Missouri hospital. These are some of the materials to prepare us for the next chapter in the coronavirus saga. More than four years into the pandemic, the virus has loosened its grip on most people’s bodies and minds. But […]
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This is the first time a kidney transplant has been performed on a living person Michelle Rose/Massachusetts General Hospital Surgeons successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a 62-year-old man with end-stage renal disease. Recipient Richard Slayman is recovering well and is expected to be discharged from the hospital a few days after surgery. Is this
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Surgeons in Boston have transplanted a kidney from a genetically engineered pig into a sick 62-year-old man, the first such operation. If successful, the breakthrough would bring hope to hundreds of thousands of Americans suffering from kidney failure. So far, the signs are promising. The kidneys remove waste products and excess fluid from the blood.
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The cerebellum of kuru patients Liebsky PP (2013) A genetic study in an extremely remote community in Papua New Guinea has uncovered new insights into a brain disease that people spread by eating their dead relatives, which killed thousands of people in the 20th century.th century. Papua New Guinea’s Eastern Highlands province, a collection of
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Measles, a highly contagious but preventable disease, is making a resurgence in parts of the United States, raising a warning about the dangers of strengthening the anti-vaccination movement. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recorded more cases this year than in all of 2023, which was 58, although the agency is
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Electron micrograph of HIV, which currently requires lifelong medication Scott Karmazin/Alamy Stock Photo A new way to eradicate HIV from the body may one day become a treatment for the viral infection, although it has not yet been proven effective in humans. The strategy uses a relatively new genetic technology called CRISPR, which cuts DNA
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Kathy Goldman, who worked as a civic leader to establish food banks, pantries and free breakfast and lunch programs in public schools to sustain low-income people, died March 5 in Brooklyn New Yorker life. She is 92 years old. Her daughter, Julie Goldman, said the cause of her death at the hospital was congestive heart
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When Joel Bervell thought about professionalism in undergraduates, he thought of Grey’s Anatomy. Specifically, he considered how the residents on the show are expected to do so (even though that’s often not the case): be on time, be prepared for their cases, and be respectful to everyone around them. “That’s my only criteria for being
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