2001 Surgical Cross Coder released. Baby who received transfusion in womb survives. James Sibley, who received a special vaccine at 13 weeks gestation and blood transfusions beginning at 16 weeks in the womb, has made medical history, says a NewsEdge article. He is the youngest patient to receive this treatment while still in the womb. The baby was born at 34 weeks by caesarean operation in City Hospital in Nottingham, England.
Health hints for the tropics.
Monkey born with an added gene in its cells. Scientists in Portland, OR, say they have inserted a foreign gene into a monkey egg, fertilized the egg, and produced a baby monkey that has an added gene in its cells, says an article in The New York Times. The gene, which comes from a jellyfish, is a marker that causes cells to make a protein that glows under a fluorescent light. Though the monkey s cells have the gene, they are not making the protein, so this may be an incremental step, said researchers. Rare cloned ox dies after birth.