July 2006 Archives

According to this study (PDF File) by Rand Corporation (www.rand.org), there are nearly 400,000 embryos (fertilized eggs that have developed for six or fewer days) frozen and stored since the late 1970s..

Paulina and I have about 0.000025 times the total amount.

Couples decide what to do with those embyos and you have to sign an agreement before starting the IVF cycle. You can donate the embryos for research, donate them to others, discard them or do 'other' things ( I don't know what "others" stands for). According to Rand, 2.8 % of the couples donate them for research, 2.3 % donate them to others, 2.2 % discard them and 4.5 % do other things.

So there are 9,200 embryos designated for donation for other couples. From those embryos only 65% survive the freeze-and-thaw process. And so there are 5,980 embryos ready for donation for other couples. And from those embryos, about 25% would survive the IVF cycles. And so there would be 1,495 babies. Some of them were there at the East Room of the White House while President Bush vetoed this type of research.

The White House is big enough for the 1,495 babies but not big enough for all the additional innocent lives that will be lost as a result of his decision.

Read Vetoing Henry by Laurie Stongin at the Washington Post for more.

H.R.810 - Yea-Nay Vote. 63 - 37
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for human embryonic stem cell research.

Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct and support research that utilizes human embryonic stem cells, regardless of the date on which the stem cells were derived from a human embryo, provided such embryos: (1) have been donated from in vitro fertilization clinics; (2) were created for the purposes of fertility treatment; (3) were in excess of the needs of the individuals seeking such treatment and would never be implanted in a woman and would otherwise be discarded (as determined in consultation with the individuals seeking fertility treatment); and (4) were donated by such individuals with written informed consent and without any financial or other inducements.

According to this article (Stem Cell Debate Wedges Bush Between a Rock and a Hard Place) Bush has signed 1,116 consecutive bills into law since becoming president.

Is he going to veto this one?

Veto = a vote that blocks a decision; vote against; refuse to endorse; the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act.

My guess is that he will.

ADAP is dispensable for NK cell development and function
Fostel, L. V., Dluzniewska, J., Shimizu, Y., Burbach, B. J., Peterson, E. J.
Int Immunol 2006 18: p. 1305-1314

X-linked susceptibility to mycobacteria is caused by mutations in NEMO impairing CD40-dependent IL-12 production
Filipe-Santos, O., Bustamante, J., Haverkamp, M. H., Vinolo, E., Ku, C.-L., Puel, A., Frucht, D. M., Christel, K., von Bernuth, H., Jouanguy, E., Feinberg, J., Durandy, A., Senechal, B., Chapgier, A., Vogt, G., de Beaucoudrey, L., Fieschi, C., Picard, C., Garfa, M., Chemli, J., Bejaoui, M., Tsolia, M. N., Kutukculer, N., Plebani, A., Notarangelo, L., Bodemer, C., Geissmann, F., Israel, A., Veron, M., Knackstedt, M., Barbouche, R., Abel, L., Magdorf, K., Gendrel, D., Agou, F., Holland, S. M., Casanova, J.-L.
J. Exp. Med. 2006 0: p. jem.20060085-15

Successful Allogeneic Hemopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in a Child Who
Had Anhidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia With Immunodeficiency
Dupuis-Girod, S., Cancrini, C., Deist, F. L., Palma, P., Bodemer, C., Puel, A., Livadiotti, S., Picard, C., Bossuyt, X., Rossi, P., Fischer, A., Casanova, J.-L.
Pediatrics 2006 0: p. peds.2005-2661v1-205

Transient Hemophagocytosis With Deficient Cellular Cytotoxicity, Monoclonal Immunoglobulin M Gammopathy, Increased T-Cell Numbers, and Hypomorphic NEMO Mutation
Schmid, J. M. P., Junge, S. A., Hossle, J. P., Schneider, E. M., Roosnek, E., Seger, R. A., Gungor, T.
Pediatrics 2006 0: p. peds.2005-2062v1-1056

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PRIMERA FASE
Primer Lugar: CECILIA GARCIA ASCENCIO
Segundo Lugar: TODOR GLOCOV, JUAN ANTONIO MARTIN (ALIAS PANITA/BANANO), FELIPE GARCIA ASCENCIO
Tercer Lugar: ROCIO GONZALEZ ZARDAIN

SEGUNDA FASE
Primer Lugar: VERONICA AGUILAR
Segundo Lugar: JORGE DE GORTARI
Tercer Lugar: MICHAEL CUMMINGS, ENRIQUE RAMIREZ MENA

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