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Via 41 sources – Vatican forbids designer babies

Posted on December 12, 2008 by Andres Trevino

I’m a siner? The 41 sources via Google News The document “Dignitas Personae” can be found here. Vatican affirms ‘dignity of human embryo’ 8 hours ago VATICAN CITY (AFP) — The Vatican on Friday reopened ethical questions surrounding stem cell research and techniques such as cloning with a document affirming the “dignity of the human…

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Via NY Times – Parents Torn Over Fate of Frozen Embryos

Posted on December 9, 2008 by Andres Trevino

I find this ridiculous. December 4, 2008 Parents Torn Over Fate of Frozen Embryos By DENISE GRADY For nearly 15 years, Kim and Walt Best have been paying about $200 a year to keep nine embryos stored in a freezer at a fertility clinic at Duke University — embryos that they no longer need, because they are finished…

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Sofia name suggestions for new baby

Posted on December 9, 2008 by Andres Trevino

If it’s a boy: Ohno Treviño If it’s a girl: Ohyes Treviño Boy or Girl? And guess delivery date here.

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Sofia & Andy current favorite songs

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Andres Trevino

This is Sofia’s favorite song: I’m Yours – Jason Mraz  This is Andy’s favorite song: Burnin’ up – Jason Bros. 

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NECN interview – CHB Orphan disease center

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Andres Trevino

(Ally Donnelly, NECN: Boston, MA) – A Boston hospital has received a grant to establish the world’s first-ever center to study orphan diseases. An orphan disease is any disease or disorder affecting less than 200,000 people in the United States. Because the disorders affect so few, researchers have a difficult time getting government or private…

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Ally Donnelly – NECN TV interview tonight

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Andres Trevino

Hi, guys. Thank you for spending so much time with us yesterday and for sharing your story. I hope it helps raise money for the Manton Center and for other kids like Andy. The piece will air for the first time on NECN tonight during the 9pm news. It will repeat at 10pm and again…

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Hope is that thing inside us that insists

Posted on November 26, 2008 by Andres Trevino

Hope is that thing inside us that insists

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Cool tissue-engineering protocol

Posted on November 19, 2008 by Andres Trevino

This is what they did: Reoved cells and MHC antigens from a human donor trachea, which was then readily colonised by epithelial cells and mesenchymal stem-cell-derived chondrocytes that had been cultured from cells taken from the recipient (a 30-year old woman with end-stage bronchomalacia). This graft was then used to replace the recipient’s left main…

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Reasearch from Orangelab. Jordan Orange & Eric Hanson, et. al.

Posted on October 29, 2008 by Andres Trevino

Life saving research from Orangelab was published at the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology this month. They studied 72 individuals with NEMO. Thirty-six percent of individuals died at a mean age of 6.4 years. Thirty-two different NEMO mutations were identified. 86% with serious pyogenic infection, 39% with mycobacterial infection, 19% with serious viral infection,…

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Vatican Not Keen on what we did – More news from Spain

Posted on October 24, 2008 by Andres Trevino

A baby who was grown in order to donate umbilical cord blood to his brother was born last week in Spain, and it was widely reported in Spanish media. They are calling him “baby medicine”. I’ve seen 400+ media coverage articles about the story.I also received this report regarding Bishops from Spain from hat seems to be a catholic news…

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