Texas surgeon pioneers partial skull and scalp transplant
Jim Boysen, a 55 year old Austin software developer, became the first recipient of a partial skull and scalp transplant performed by surgeons from Houston Methodist and MD Anderson. The 15 hour operation also included a kidney and pancreas transplant.
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Texas
Houston Methodist Hospital
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Jim Boysen
Austin
Boysen
Associated Press
Netherlands
Jesse Selber
MD Anderson
Houston Methodist
LifeGift
Selber
Michael Klebuc
Houston Methodist Plastic Surgery
Bohdan Pomahac
Harvard
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston
VirScan test maps lifetime viral exposure across populations
Scientists report VirScan a DNA based blood test that screens for antibodies to 206 human virus species. In initial trials 569 people in the United States South Africa Thailand and Peru showed an average exposure to 10 virus species with geographic differences noted and costs about 25 per sample.
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Washington
Science
Ian Lipkin
Center For Infection and Immunity
Columbia University
United States
South Africa
Thailand
Peru
Stephen Elledge
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Chidren
Elledge
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