Medical research
Hopes high for a bioengineered liver
Every year, at least 1,500 people die on the waiting list for a new liver because of a donor shortage.
Aug 9, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Using a pig model to study chronic diseases may help minimize drug failure rate
Scientists may be able to minimize the failure rate of drugs for diseases linked to high-calorie diets, such as colon cancer and type 2 diabetes, if they test treatments using a pig model, according to an international team ...
Jul 20, 2017
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Medical research
How your risk of heart disease stems back to your time in the womb
Smoking, lack of exercise, bad diet and our genes are all well-known risk factors for heart disease, cancer and diabetes. But, as researchers are beginning to understand, the environment in the womb as we first begin to grow ...
Jul 11, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Glutamine suppresses herpes in mice and guinea pigs in study
Glutamine supplements can suppress reactivation of herpes simplex virus (HSV) in mice and guinea pigs, according to findings recently published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. The research was conducted by scientists ...
Jun 19, 2017
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
Pig model to help research on human knee growth, injury treatment
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have published research on how the knees of pigs compare to human knees at various stages of maturity—a finding that will ...
May 15, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Antibiotic resistance persists in bacteria, even absent selection pressure from antibiotics
Plasmids are pieces of independent DNA that often carry multiple antibiotic resistance genes. Plasmids can jump from one bacterium to another, spreading that resistance. A team of French investigators now shows that bacteria ...
Aug 1, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Treatment of humans and pigs may reduce endemic tapeworm infection
The transmission of Taenia solium, a pork tapeworm species that infects humans and causes late-onset seizures and epilepsy, can be stopped on a population-wide level with mass treatments of both pigs and humans, researchers ...
Jun 22, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Threat of novel swine flu viruses in pigs and humans
The wide diversity of flu in pigs across multiple continents, mostly introduced from humans, highlights the significant potential of new swine flu strains emerging, according to a study to be published in eLife.
Apr 26, 2016
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Medical research
Could a gene-editing tweak make pigs organ donors for ailing humans?
Despite their slovenly habits in agricultural settings, pigs raised in biomedical labs are clean enough that many humans would welcome - indeed, do welcome - the use of their tissue for life-saving transplants. Transplanted ...
Mar 21, 2016
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Medications
Drugs trial tragedies: a rarity
Drugs trial tragedies like that reported in France on Friday which left one person brain dead and three others facing irreversible brain damage are a rarity, experts say.
Jan 15, 2016
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