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Tag: "pig" at biology news

Achilles heel of the herpes virus possibly found

...mpossible until Fuller's team discovered a type of pig kidney cell that isn't vulnerable to infection by ...the B5-coding sequence, and figured out how to get pig cells to express the human B5 protein to allow the pig cells to be infected with human herpes virus....

Scientists discover odd-ball rodent

...Or a rat. Because it's actually more like a guinea pig or chinchilla. But not quite. In fact the new species, found in Laos by scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and other groups, is so unique it represents an entire new family of wildlife. The new species is described in the recent...

Precise Timing Enabled Pig-to-rat Transplants To Cure Diabetes

...successes in treating diabetic rats with embryonic pig tissues. In those experiments, published in 2004,...tion drugs to diabetic rats treated with embryonic pig cell transplants. They had expected rats that received no immune suppression would reject the transp...

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