Preclinical safety study shows adipose-derived stem cells improve heart function after heart attack
...after infarction was found to be safe, with all 13 swine surviving to the 6-month follow-up period. Additio...ificant improvements in heart function. Additional swine studies are underway to better understand and optimize dosing and efficacy in order to lay the found...Experiment station researcher looking for missing links in corn
...he need for soybean additives when feeding corn to swine and poultry. Corn is deficient in two essential amino acids, lysine and tryptophan. Increasing the relative content of these two amino acids is the project of corn researcher Dr. Javier Betran. The resulting nutritionally-improved corn, known as Qu...Antibiotics in the environment
...ibiotics are commonly used for growth promotion in swine production. In general, as much as 90% of ant...tracycline and tylosin antibiotics. Tests of a few swine manure samples showed that they contained as high as 7.9 mg/L chlortetracycline and 5.2 mg/L tylosin...Immerge reports PERVs most infectious to human cells not part of germ-line DNA of mini-swine
...s are not present in cells and organs of miniature swine destined for clinical use," said Dr Clive Patience... any viruses in the germ-line DNA of the miniature swine that could infect human cells. On the rare occasion that we could infect human cells, the viruses we......Invasive aliens with thrifty genes: Diabetic feral swine on a southeastern coastal barrier island" will be ...ch they have roamed their island habitat, the wild swine of Ossabaw Island developed some unique traits that help them survive in an environment with fluctua...U.S. Army awards veterinary college researcher $1 million grant to develop vaccine
... who recently developed and patented a vaccine for swine pleuropneumonia by mutating the DNA required for capsule synthesis by Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, and selecting for a non-capsulated vaccine strain, plans to apply his expertise in bacterial carbohydrate antigens to the new vaccine and diagnosti...Immerge BioTherapeutics announces new findings addressing key safety risk in xenotransplantation
...previously identified animals within our miniature swine herd that do not transmit PERV to human cells; the...ed the birth of cloned, double knock-out miniature swine that lack expression of the GGTA1 gene. This gene is responsible for rapid rejection of organs and ...Islet cells from swine reverse insulin dependency in diabetic non-human primates
...l xenotransplantation from the strain of miniature swine we are developing and are currently engaged in pre-clinical trials in both areas," said Julia Greenstein, Ph.D., CEO and President, Immerge BioTherapeutics, Inc. "In this swine, we have been able to "knock-out" the gene that is responsible for begin...Immerge BioTherapeutics announces identification of PERV receptor
...the identification of animals within its miniature swine herd that do not transmit PERV to human cell lines...ed the birth of cloned, double knock-out miniature swine that lack expression of the GGTA1 gene. This gene is responsible for rapid rejection of organs and ...Researchers find viral protein that mimics its way into cells
...n found in everything from common yeast to African swine fever virus but this is the first time it has been found in a retrovirus." The discovery of the similar calcineurin binding sites in NFAT and the viral protein might seem to suggest a ne...Smart mathematical model prevents the spread of swine fever
...ted that partial vaccination can stop outbreaks of swine fever. What's more, mother sows do not need to be ... mother sows are not vaccinated, the spread of the swine fever is limited to transfer to less than one pig production unit. Therefore a partial vaccination c...Data presented on first cloned, double knock-out miniature swine
...nced the successful cloning of the first miniature swine with both copies of a specific gene "knocked out" ...enture company), is to develop a herd of miniature swine that can be used as a safe source for human transplantation, a process known as xenotransplantation....From nanotechnology to raspberries, Virginia Tech inventions and creations can improve our lives
...e and should prove to be effective vaccine against swine pleuropneumonia. Elizabeth Grabau, associate profe...m is that non-ruminant animals such as poultry and swine are unable to efficiently absorb phytate phosphorus in soybean meal. To satisfy dietary requirements...Hurricane floods pose risk to environment, health, new research on 1999 storm reveals
...cteristics because from past research we knew that swine operations are disproportionately located in low-i...ists studied, 2,245 involved swine, Wing said. The swine operations with geographic coordinates in areas that were inundated according to satellite images we...Immerge biotherapeutics identifies miniature swine that do not transmit pig retrovirus to humans
...nnounced today that they have identified miniature swine that failed to produce porcine endogenous retrovir...cked out a gene from this same strain of miniature swine that produces a key sugar molecule (a1,3-galactosyltransferase or GGTA) responsible for triggering t...US researchers successfully clone first knockout miniature swine
...ave successfully cloned the worlds first miniature swine with a specific gene "knocked out" of their DNA. T... have been actively developing a line of miniature swine that offers many advantages as a potential donor for xenotransplantation, including their organ size...Hepatitis E recovered from rats in Los Angeles
...wn to be a possible source of HEV exposure and the swine virus, while quite similar to the human virus, doe...nd up being significantly different from human and swine HEV as the primers used to amplify RNA of those viruses do not work on this new agent. It is possibl...3rd animal species cloned at Texas A&M
... and is the lead investigator on the project. The swine cloning project was a collaborative effort involvi...ler Bazer, an internationally recognized expert in swine reproductive physiology, and his group provided essential expertise that facilitated successful comp...Antibiotic-resistant genes traced from farms to groundwater
...er as far as a sixth of a mile downstream from two swine facilities that use antibiotics as growth promoters. The finding is significant in part because it shows the potential for spreading resistance back into the food chain of animals and people, researchers say. U.S. farmers for more than 50 years have...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology: March 2001
...E virus (HEV) develop the disease, suggesting that swine could serve as an environmental reservoir for the ...fected groups of pigs with either the human or the swine strain of HEV. After nearly two months the pigs that were infected with the human strain had more s...