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SCIENCE
Monday • May 1, 1995
Eddy Wylie/T'HE Battalion
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Mexico anymore...
Ana Donohue, from Las Cruces, New Mexico, uses a global
positioning system linked to a satellite to map coordinates for
computerized maps Sunday afternoon at Research Park. She
is currently visiting A&M to learn this technology from the
mapping sciences department.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A biolog
ical clock that starts ticking ear
ly in pregnancy may largely de
termine when a woman will de
liver her baby, says a study sug
gesting a possible way to pre
vent premature births.
Evidence for the clock ap
peared when researchers found
abnormal hormone levels early in
pregnancy in women who eventu
ally delivered prematurely or
well past their due date.
Scientists might be able to
prevent many premature births if
they can find the clock and learn
to adjust it in women with a hor
mone level showing a high risk
for prematurity, researcher Dr.
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Roger Smith said.
About 11 percent of births in
the United States are premature,
coming before the 37th week of
pregnancy. Premature babies are
at increased risk of death and con
ditions including cerebral palsy,
seizure disorders, blindness, lung
disease and mental retardation.
Smith is director of the Mater
nal Health Research Center at
John Hunter Hospital in Newcas
tle, Australia. He, colleagues
there, and others at the Universi
ty of Reading in England report
on their study in the May issue of
Nature Medicine.
The study’s “remarkable” re
sults provide “a very important
piece of the puzzle” about what
causes premature births and
what governs the timing of nor
mal-length pregnancies, said Dr.
Peter Nathanielsz, who studies
the biology of pregnancy at Cor
nell University in Ithaca.
Some premature deliveries are
caused by medical conditions like
infections that would not be pre
dictable by hormone levels.
Smith said.
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challenge lies in
overcoming im
munological differ
ences between hu
mans and pigs.
NEW YORK (AP) — Scien
tists who grafted pig hearts
into baboons say they have
taken a major step toward
the routine transplant of ani
mal organs into people, a
high-tech answer to the
shortage of human organs.
The pig hearts carried pro
teins that markedly reduced
damage from an initial and
normally devastating assault
by the immune system.
This attack,
called hyperacute
rejection, has been
considered the
biggest barrier to
routine transplants
of animal organs
into people, and the
new work shows it
committee studying the use of
animals as donors.
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the immune system unleash-
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transplant recipients stave
off by taking drugs.
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tect pig organs against hypera
cute rejection without shutting
down the immune system’s
ability to unleash the destruc
tive proteins on disease-caus
ing bacteria and viruses.
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plant pigs organs into people.
has been overcome, researcher
Jeffrey Platt said.
Platt is a professor of exper
imental surgery, pediatrics
and immunology at the Duke
University Medical Center in
Durham, N.C. The study, done
with colleagues at Duke and
the biotechnology company
Nextran in Princeton, N.J., is
reported in the May issue of
Nature Medicine.
About 90,000 people a year
in the United States could ben
efit from transplants, but the
potential human supply is only
8,000 to 14,000 donors annual
ly, said Roger Evans of the
Mayo Clinic in Rochester,
Minn. Evans is on a national
tists hoped these protective
proteins would dampen
the immune system assault
after transplant.
Scientists have now pro
duced pigs that continuously
create the protective proteins
in their hearts, which should||
provide longer-lasting protec
tion, Platt said.
Two more years of animal 1
experiments will be needed be
fore scientists can hope to
transplant pig organs into peo-;
pie, and other immunological
hurdles must still be over
come, he said.
Eventually, pigs may be
able to supply hearts, lungs
and kidneys to people, he said.
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