It became known as "bubble boy disease" because of a case in the 1970s involving a Texas boy who lived for 12 years in a protective plastic bubble to isolate him from germs. It's now called "bubble baby disease" because roughly 20 different gene defects, including some that affect girls...
prions appear to increase their number by directly causing normal prion proteins to fold abnormally. In humans, the damage to the brain causes changes in memory, personality, and behavior, typically quickly progressing once symptoms become evident to dementia and problems with movement such as difficu...
"I just thought, there's something wrong here," said Ainslie, who lives in Peoria, Ariz. After many rounds of tests, doctors discovered that Colton had a rare genetic condition called severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), sometimes referred to as the "bubble boy disease." Children with SCI...
tornado safety. I was SO excited- my friends and I were going to be in the presence of our “famous weatherman” whom I watched on the news every morning before school. My friends and I celebrated what we expected to be one of the best days of our 2nd grade lives.Boy, were we ...