No one can fully understand another person’s pain. Before my son’s accident, I thought people in a wheelchair just sat down a lot. I had no idea of the endless quiet agonies and frustrations they endure. But at least people notice the wheelchair — what if a person looked utterly healthy, young, slender, beautiful —
A long-time medical technologist and former faculty member at UCSF, Bill Remak has his fair share of experience with the medical research industry. He has also battled chronic Hepatitis C (HCV), survived two liver transplants and a bout with cancer, and now is a Type 2 diabetic. In short, Bill is well acquainted with the
If you visit the Chicago Air Museum (now called the Museum of Science and Industry) you can see the actual plane the Wright brothers flew, on the world’s first leap into the sky. It is an amazing museum, well worth your time and the sixteen-dollar admission fee. But one of the most interesting exhibits might
Do you know those ATM machines in front of banks, where people go to make deposits or withdrawals of money? What if there was an ATM which collected blood—you stick your arm in a slot and a needle pokes and some blood is taken out and new blood put in? There isn’t any such ATM,
Matthias Hebrok, PhD is a leading researcher in diabetes, answers a few quick questions about new stem cells discoveries and dinner parties!
Imagine a cut that bleeds but does not clot. Untreated, a person with hemophilia can suffer extreme pain from internal bleeding in the joints, as well as suffering strokes from brain-bleeds, even death from continual blood loss. It is said the Russian Revolution of 1917 might not have happened, if there had been a cure
I was walking across my high school football field one day, when the boy in front of me suddenly fell to the ground. He went down hard; then writhed around violently, as if wrestling with himself. I just stood there, holding my schoolbooks, no idea what to do. Presently the contortions calmed. He lay there
Evangelina Padilla-Vaccaro was born with Bubble Boy Disease, also known as severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), a genetic, uniformly lethal disease that causes babies to be born without functioning immune systems. But today, thanks to stem cell research funded by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Evangelina is cured. See her parents speak in the video below.
