It didn t come as a surprise when Laura Sherrill set her sights on attending the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in King s Point, New York.
Growing up in Ketchikan, Sherrill had watched as her brother and sister both left to attend the academy after receiving congressional nominations. Her father, Troy Sherrill, also attended the academy. I feel like I ve always known I wanted to go to the Merchant Marine academy, said Sherrill in a recent interview with the Daily News. My father, he went there, and then it kind of solidified when my sister got accepted and went. I was in middle school. And then I was like, OK, well, my sister s going, my brother s probably going to go, this is something I can look into.
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A novel gene therapy for severe combined immunodeficiency from adenosine deaminase deficiency (ADA-SCID) restored immune cell counts without death or need for enzyme replacement therapy, researchers reported.
Survival without needing to re-initiate pegylated ADA enzyme replacement therapy, or have a rescue allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AHCT), was 95% to 97% at last follow-up at 24 or 36 months across three studies pooled together by Donald B. Kohn, MD, of the University of California Los Angeles, and colleagues.
Those rates compare favorably with the current standard of care, AHCT, for which overall survival of 65% to 88% and event-free survival of 56% has been reported, they stated in the
TORONTO A new landmark study examining treatment for a debilitating genetic disease known colloquially as bubble boy syndrome has found that gene therapy may provide a solution. There are several types of severe combined immunodeficiency due to adenosine deaminase (SCID or ADA-SCID), but “bubble boy syndrome” refers to when affected children must be extra cautious and protected from germs and infections as their immune systems do not function properly. The study followed 50 patients, 20 from the U.K. and 30 in the U.S. – including eight patients from Canada who had been referred by specialists to take part of the study south of the border.
By Rachel Brazil2021-05-11T08:54:00+01:00
The German chemist discovered one element and may have been the first to suggest nuclear fission – but her legacy is troubled, as Rachel Brazil discovers
‘We want a heroine or a martyr’ when we read about forgotten women scientists, says Brigitte van Tiggelen, the Science History Institute’s director of European operations. Ida Noddack does not fit that description. Her legacy is complicated by her work for the academic regime set up by the Nazi government in 1930s Germany, which likely clouded post-war judgement of her work. But even before the war, Noddack’s insights were ignored and diminished by scientific contemporaries. As well as discovering the element rhenium, one of the last of the naturally occurring elements to be discovered, she suggested that bombardment of heavy nuclei could lead to their breakup, four years before the idea of nuclear fission was widely accepted. But disputed claims to have discovered the element te
Part one of a conversation with film historian, scholar James Naremore: The films of American director Charles Burnett
James Naremore has been one of the most insightful commentators on film and film history over the past four decades. He remains one of the relatively few figures in the field interested in (or capable of) “interweaving” as he notes in our conversation below a genuine aesthetic sensibility with a political and social interest. Now retired from teaching, Professor Naremore is Chancellors’ Professor Emeritus of Communication and Culture, English and Comparative Literature at Indiana University. He is the editor of the Contemporary Film Directors series of books at University of Illinois Press and a writer at large for