#137.
Actually its the opposite. If something is present in the son but not in the mother it is most probably X linked recessive because the sons do not have another x chromosome to counter the recessive gene. Y genes are mostly linked to sperm production and Y linked genetic disorders are rare because the people that have them are normally sterile and can not pass on their genes.

Woo. I'm only a first year med student, well 2nd year as of today, but I think those fimbriae. They are extensions of the plica finbriata. I've seen pictures but yours are actually bigger than any I've seen before. Here are some pics:
http://rdoc.org.uk/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/46510549/m/7471023922

It's a really bad idea to take that stuff if you have a heart problem. It messes with hERG K+ channels in the heart(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HERG ). Most pharmaceuticals are routinely screened to make sure they don't interact with this ion channel because its so bad.

Also, there is software available to check for drug interactions and theoretically the pharmacist should catch the interactions if you get the interacting drugs filled at the same place.

Finally, at least they aren't killing endangered psychoactive frogs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllomedusa_bicolor

Pouched Rats can do it too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eAGtAYW6mA

Reminds me of the biofeedback videogames I read about. Does anyone know if they are any good?
Here is one:
http://www.wilddivine.com/store_view.php?item_id=4

I think there was an arcade game mentioned on boingboing that did something similar.

Here is a great blog post that clears up a lot of misconceptions about the topic:
http://immunoblogging.blogspot.com/2005/08/crocodile-serum-to-cure-hiv.html

Reptile blood does indeed have antiviral properties. There is some old article from 2005 about crocodile blood fighting HIV in addition to having antibiotic properties:

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2005/08/68553

I'm not sure if alligator blood does the same thing.

There is also a product line that is made of crocodile "oil" called repcillin. Who knows how effective it is, it may just be a "croc" (sorry, I couldn't resist the bad pun). Yes, they do have croc blood lip balm.

http://www.crocodileoil.com/repcillin_worldwide_orderform.php

Sort of related, the neuroscientist Oliver Sacks is going blind because of an ocular melanoma and has been studying his condition:

"Eighteen months ago, Sacks noticed a looming shadow in his field of vision. The darkness was ocular melanoma, a rare type of eye cancer. The cancer slowly spread, and Sacks felt his sight recede. As a neurologist, he is morbidly fascinated by his own condition and keeps detailed notes on all of his visual problems. "My scotoma [blind spot] is Australia-shaped," Sacks says, "about thirty degrees across. It's almost like a window, and there are constantly hallucinations inside it. Just this morning I was staring at my clock radio and saw a crowd of tiny people inside it."

Sacks shows me his "melanoma journals"—"Melanoma is such a lovely word," he remarks—which are full of rough sketches of his visual sensations. There is one drawing that shows a torso with a scratched-out face, just a slew of horizontal lines. "That's my first horrified sketch of when I couldn't see my own head," Sacks says. "I looked in the mirror one morning, and there was just a shadow there." Sacks is also fascinated by how his mind compensates for the blind spot, automatically "filling in" the new void in his senses. "If I wait for a few moments," he says, "The form just creeps in from the periphery, like ice crystallizing. And then I look away, and the scotoma returns."

There is something deeply poignant about watching Sacks deal with his decaying sight. It's as if he's become a character from one of his books, bewildered by his own brain. He can't help but continually interrupt himself in conversation, remarking on the strangeness of what he's just experienced. His desk is littered with typewritten pages about his blind spot, which he struggles to type since he can't see the keys. "I've always had a great fear of losing central vision. Especially in the past few weeks, it seems to get worse each day," Sacks says. "But now I've come to a deal with the melanoma. If it takes my vision and leaves me my life, that's okay with me."

http://seedmagazine.com/news/2007/10/the_listener.php?page=all

I'd like to see the church go through with cleansing themselves of sin #6.

With the "phantom melodies" illusion I still hear the phantom melody even at slow speed. What in the world does that mean!?

A cat and Pleo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMRuYhWA7QY

The cat doesn't seem very interested.

I thought this happened a while ago? There is another drug that is produced in transgenic rabbits to treat hereditary angioedema that may be approved soon.

http://www.in-pharmatechnologist.com/news/ng.asp?id=78196-pharming-gtc-biotherapeutics-transgenic-animals-rhucin-atryn