Sunday, September 30, 2012

PRO LIFE QUOTE OF THE WEEK [SUNDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2012 TO SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER 2012]













QUOTE: “By all criteria of modern molecular biology, life is present from the moment of conception.”

AUTHOR: Micheline M. Mathews-Roth, MD is the Associate Professor of Medicine in Harvard Medical School and an Associate Physician in Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Mathews-Roth performs basic science and clinical research in photobiology.

Her clinical studies focus on developing photo-protective treatments for the orphan disease, erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP), and other human photosenstivity diseases. She is studying beta-carotene and the amino acid cysteine as photoprotective agents in EPP. She is also developing gene therapy methods for EPP.

Dr. Mathews-Roth has organized the Erythropoietic Protopophyria Research and Education Fund as a support group for EPP patients and their families. She also acts as a consultant on the treatment of EPP, and is on the scientific advisory board of the American Porphyria Foundation. She is available to advise patients and their physicians about the light-sensitive porphyrias, and the medical uses of beta-carotene and other carotenoid pigments.

Her basic science studies concern: 1) the molecular biology of EPP, including gene therapy studies; 2) carotenoid molecule (as opposed to vitamin A) photoprotective and other functions in the bacteria which contain carotenoids, as well as mammilian cells supplemented with them; and 3) the genetics of pigment formation in the non-photosynthetic carotenoid-containing bacteria. http://www.channing.harvard.edu/roth.htm

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