Shovel stretcher Respiration bag, including mask set

I saved a boy from drowning, mouthtomouth respiration.

Artificial respiration did it and a few Boy Scout tricks.

Mitochondrial DNA, tracing a purely maternal line of descent.

And below that's temperature, and respiration, and oxygen, and then the position activity.

So, all of these things greater metabolic demands, reduced reproductive success, changes in respiration and metabolism.

Fasske E (1988) Experimental lung tumors following specific intrabronchial application of chrysotile asbestos. Respiration, 53 111 127.

Then the pneumograph is fastened about the subject's chest... and we record the changes in the respiration.

So really, what you end up having here is not a guar and not a mouflon, but a guar with cow mitochondria, and therefore cow mitochondrial DNA, and a mouflon with another species of sheep's mitochondrial DNA.

Within the last 200,000 years, we all share an ancestor, a single person Mitochondrial Eve, you might have heard about her in Africa, an African woman who gave rise to all the mitochondrial diversity in the world today.

On the opposite wall is her mitochondrial DNA sequence a centipede of Cs and Gs and As, written in pencil.

But what was credible, what is biological and scientific fact, is that we all stem from Africa in fact, from a woman called Mitochondrial Eve who lived 160,000 years ago.

But what was credible, what is biological and scientific fact, is that we all stem from Africa in fact, from a woman called Mitochondrial Eve who lived 160,000 years ago.

And because we shared our genetic information with Linda, she could see that Harriet and I shared a very rare type of mitochondrial DNA Haplotype K1a1b1a which meant that we were distantly related.

Germline genetic modification threatens to make such errors permanent. The UK scientific and charitable organizations advocating mitochondrial research are proud of the permissive legislative framework that has enabled them to establish an international lead.

But the more urgent threat is that any kind of germline genetic modification could do long term, permanent damage. The HFEA s own expert panel reported that the safety of mitochondrial techniques is far from being proven for current users.

You can decode the genome, you can look back, you can link us all together by a mitochondrial DNA, but we can't get further than the last ancestor, the last visible cell that we could sequence or think back in history.

But treatment does not mean helping existing sufferers. Rather, the techniques might allow a small subset of women with mitochondrial disease (in the UK, roughly 10 20 annually) to reduce the risk that their children will inherit the mutation at the cost of setting a precedent with serious potential consequences.

Just very simply, the three parts of the brain the frontal lobe, where you focus your attention and concentration you have the temporal lobe, where you form images and keep memories and the posterior part of your brain, which contains the cerebellum, which controls motion and the brain stem, where you have your basic maintenance functions, like heartbeat and respiration.

This understanding also refutes the legend of Mitochondrial Eve, the woman from whom all humans supposedly descend on their mother s side. Research on the human leukocyte antigen genes, which are involved in the human immune response, shows that such a common ancestor could not have existed this group of genes derives from those of all three known ancient humans.

Despite this relatively low frequency, the Wellcome Trust (an organization dedicated to improving human and animal health) recently donated 4 million ( 6.5 million) to scientists at the University of Newcastle to establish a center for mitochondrial research. In a 2010 paper, the scientists reported some early success with a technique involving the use of human zygotes (single cell embryos) that had been engineered to contain only healthy mitochondria.

But, while the number of people affected by such mutations is estimated to be between one in 200 and one in 400, mutations do not translate to serious diseases in most cases. Because the harmful changes are often only present in low levels, and because a single cell can contain both mutated and normal mitochondria, it is widely believed that only one person in 5,000 or even one in 10,000 will be affected by mitochondrial disease.