Group - Less Than Human

Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research www.wehi.edu.au Donations: www.wehi.edu...

Doctors Panayiotis Zavos and Severino Antinori claim they are ready to embark on...

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BOOK REVIEW HUMAN RIGHTS Confronting Myths and MisunderstandingsBy Andrew Fag...

3D Animation of the Human Body Fantastic graphic interpretation! Designed in May...

Complete video at: fora.tv Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich discusses the rapidly...

Dr Harrington sets out his overview of the human body, the various systems and s...

"Fossil evidence of human evolutionary history is fragmentary and open to variou...

Basic principles that govern human development from the prenatal period to death...

The Responsibility and Global Justice class at Vanderbilt University presents Da...

Human Ecology, Human Economy: Ideas for an Ecologically Sustainable Future is a 1997 book edited by Mark Diesendorf and Clive Hamilton.Human ecology, human economy: ideas for an ecologically sustainable futureBook Review: Human ecology, human economy The authors' intent is to "develop some of the basic ideas, concepts and tools that are needed to create a set of preferred futures for the Earth".

The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine, otherwise known as the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, or the Oviedo Convention, after Oviedo, Spain, the place where it was first signed, is a Treaty drafted by the Council of Europe regarding various aspects of bioethics. It entered into force on 1 December 1999.

Human Meta-Human Vampiric Virus, commonly called HMHVV, is a fictional disease from the game Shadowrun. The virus has been known to cause changes which often resemble abominations that are no longer human and are occasionally not even sentient.

No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human IndividualityJ. Rich Harris, Not Two Alike, W.

Human, All Too Human is a three-part 1999 documentary television series produced by the BBC. It follows the lives of three prominent philosophers; Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Human, All Too Human (Menschliches, Allzumenschliches), subtitled A Book for Free Spirits (Ein Buch für freie Geister), is a book by 19th century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1878. A second part, Assorted Opinions and Maxims (Vermischte Meinungen und Sprüche), was published in 1879, and a third part, The Wanderer and his Shadow (Der Wanderer und sein Schatten), followed in 1880.

be Human is a mini-album consisting of selected soundtracks from the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex anime series, as composed by Yoko Kanno. More importantly, it features songs relating to Tachikomas, the famous think tanks from Ghost in the Shell, and thus, a lot of the songs are from the mini series, タチコマな日々, or Tachikoma Days.

Not Quite Human is the name of a series of young adult novels by Seth McEvoy about a widowered scientist, Dr. Jonas Carson, whose lifetime work was to create an android.

Still Not Quite Human is a 1992 made-for-TV film written and directed by Eric Luke and starring Jay Underwood and Alan Thicke. It is the third and final film in a series based on the Not Quite Human novels by Seth McEvoy.

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Abstract: Xenogeneic organs transplanted to phylogenetically distant species are subject to rapid destruction mediated by complement. In humans, the complement activation is regulated by several proteins encoded by a series of closely linked genes (RCA locus) located on chromosome 1. The mouse/human hybrid cell line B10 was found to have retained human chromosome 1. FACS analysis confirmed that RCA products such as decay-accelerating factor (DAF) were expressed on the membrane surface of B10 cells. When exposed to human or rabbit complement in the presence of 'naturally occurring' human anti-mouse antib...

Abstract: The effect of recombinant human growth factors: rhIL-6, rhGM-CSF and rhEPO on normal human hematopoietic progenitor cells was studied by using liquid and semisolid culture systems. The results showed that the expanding folds of progenitor cells after culturing with the three growth factors were 4.3 +/- 0.6, 9.4 +/- 0.9 and 13.7 +/- 1.0 respectively, being markedly higher than those of control (2.4 +/- 0.7, P < 0.01. In the presence of IL-6 alone, no CFU-E colony was observed and only CFU-GM colonies were formed in the semisolid culture. When IL-6 was added with EPO, the number of CFU-E colonie...

Abstract: Explant and cell culture methodologies are frequently employed in the investigation of the mechanisms that mediate placental hormone production. Recent reports suggest the presence of unknown regulatory factors in maternal serum that may impact significantly on the regulation of these biosynthetic pathways. The present study, therefore, determined the effects of sera obtained from pregnant women in the second to third trimester (PWS), nonpregnant women (NPWS), and men (MS) as well as commercially prepared FBS on hCG, estradiol, and progesterone release into medium by cultured human trophoblast...

Abstract: Presence of human chromosome 1 with expression of human decay-accelerating factor (DAF) prevents lysis of mouse/human hybrid cells by human complement. Wang MW, Wright LJ, Sims MJ, White DJ. Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital, UK. Xenogeneic organs transplanted to phylogenetically distant species are subject to rapid destruction mediated by complement. In humans, the complement activation is regulated by several proteins encoded by a series of closely linked genes (RCA locus) located on chromosome 1. The mouse/human hybrid cell line B10 wa...

Abstract: Human-human hybridomas were generated using pokeweed mitogen-stimulated lymphocytes from the regional lymph nodes of cancer patients by fusion to the LICR-2 human myeloma cell line. A total of 35 fusions, using the regional lymph node lymphocytes of cancer patients, resulted in hybrid growth in 23% of wells plated with 21 IgG ELISA positive clones, 6 of which have maintained stable human monoclonal antibody production. Mononuclear cells were separated on Ficoll-Paque and grown for 3-4 days in 1% pokeweed mitogen and fused to the LICR-2 human myeloma cell line. Human-human hybridoma producing m...

Abstract: The identification of blood-borne viral infections is important in transfusion medicine. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of human herpesvirus (HHV) [cytomegalovirus (CMV), HHV-6, HHV-7 HHV-8] and human retrovirus (HRV) (human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV)-I/II, HRV-5) infections among apparently healthy Latvian blood donors. DNA extracted from peripheral blood leukocytes (PBL) of 150 individuals was tested for herpesviruses by sensitive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique. None of the blood donors was positive for HHV-8 infection, while the incidence of latent bet...

Abstract: Human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV), human metapneumovirus (HMPV), and human parainfluenza virus type 3 (HPIV3) are common, important respiratory pathogens, but HRSV has a substantially greater impact with regard to acute disease, long-term effects on airway function, and frequency of re-infection. It has been reported to strongly interfere with the functioning of dendritic cells (DC). We compared HRSV to HMPV and HPIV3 with regard to their effects on human monocyte-derived immature DC (IDC). Side-by-side analysis distinguished between common effects versus those specific to individual vi...

Abstract: We report the construction of a mouse-human (M-H) heterohybridoma by fusion of the murine myeloma cell line NS-1 and human spleen cells from a 17 week old fetus. The nonsecreting, cloned hybridoma cell line II was resistant to 8-azaguanine (8-AG) and sensitive to hypoxanthine, aminopterin and thymidine (HAT) medium. It grew rapidly in 8-AG containing medium (doubling time 20 hrs.), but did not grow in HAT medium or in non-serum medium. It had a high fusion frequency with human lymphocytes from regional lymph nodes. Five human chromosomes were retained stably for over 6 months by this cell line...

Abstract: In search of a (new) viral etiological agent, we screened 64 lymph node samples from Hodgkin's disease (HD) and 43 samples (32 lymph node and 11 skin biopsies) from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) for human herpesvirus 7 (HHV-7). Twenty-nine control samples were tested as well, including 17 with benign lymphadenopathy. None of the samples tested positive by Southern blot hybridization using HHV-7-specific probes. We conclude that there is no major HHV-7 load in human lymphoma and that HHV-7 is not likely to be directly involved in its etiology. This is in contrast to a small minority of human lym...

Abstract: We succeeded in establishing a mouse-human (M-H) heterohybridoma clone which provides parental cells useful for human monoclonal antibody (hMoAb) production. Electron micrographs show that the M-H hybridoma cells retain characteristics of murine origin with regard to chromatin patterns, small granules, granular endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus. The human DNA incorporated into the M-H hybridoma is estimated to be about 1% of the total human chromosomal DNA. Mouse-human-human (M-H-H) hybridomas obtained by hybridization of the M-H hybridoma cells with Epstein-Barr virus(EBV)-transfected...

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Abstract: The results of a comparative analysis of feedback strategies used in human-human communication and human-machine communication in Swedish are reported in this paper. The aim of this study is twofold: to provide a categorization of feedback expressions based on contextual information and to verify the hypothesis that acoustic characteristics of feedback expressions can be regarded as cues to the interpretation of the function they carry out and the communicative intention they convey.

Abstract: Normal human placental trophoblasts have recently been shown to contain receptors for hCG/hLH. The present studies investigated the expression of these receptors in hyperplastic and anaplastic trophoblasts in gestational trophoblastic neoplasms. The results demonstrated that both hydatidiform moles and choriocarcinomas contained receptor messenger RNA (mRNA) and receptor protein. A variety of nontrophoblast tumors, on the other hand, contained neither receptor mRNA nor receptor protein. Choriocarcinomas contained more receptor mRNA and receptor protein than hydatidiform moles which in turn con...