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Chemists move closer toward developing safer, fully-synthetic form of heparin
Aug 17, 2008 |
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Chemists are reporting a major advance toward developing a safer, fully-synthetic version of heparin, the widely used blood thinner now produced from pig intestines. The U. S. Food and Drug Administration last spring linked ...
FDA to test all heparin at U.S. border
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Mar 16, 2008 |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an import alert and plans to test all shipments of the drug heparin before they enter the country.
USDA confirms H1N1 in Minnesota pigs
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- At least one pig from Minnesota has tested positive for the H1N1 virus, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Monday, the first case of a pig contracting the virus in the United States.
The pig of the future might be free of diseases that can infect people
Apr 07, 2009 |
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Pigs are known carriers of the bacterium Yersinia enterocolitica, and they can infect both other pigs and people. Human infection occurs through eating improperly-cooked pork. Professor Truls Nesbakken of the Norwegian School o ...
Update presented on disease in pork plant workers
Feb 24, 2009 |
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More than a year after developing a unique neurological disorder, the affected pork processing plant workers have improved, but all have some continuing symptoms and many have ongoing mild pain, according to a study released ...
Humans may give swine flu to pigs in new twist to pandemic
Jul 09, 2009 |
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The strain of influenza, A/H1N1, that is currently pandemic in humans has been shown to be infectious to pigs and to spread rapidly in a trial pig population.
Researchers sequence swine genome
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A global collaborative has produced a first draft of the genome of a domesticated pig, an achievement that will lead to insights in agriculture, medicine, conservation and evolution.
Methamphetamine use in pregnancy changes learning ability of the offspring
Apr 09, 2008 |
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Studies have suggested that infants exposed to methamphetamines while in the womb can suffer irreversible brain damage, although the exact effects of these drugs during pregnancy have been hard to pinpoint due to many other ...
World first: Chinese scientists create pig stem cells
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Scientists have managed to induce cells from pigs to transform into pluripotent stem cells - cells that, like embryonic stem cells, are capable of developing into any type of cell in the body. It is the first time in the ...
Swine flu goes person-to-pig; could it jump back?
May 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Now that the swine flu virus has passed from a farmworker to pigs, could it jump back to people? The question is important, because crossing species again could make it more deadly.
Virus has bird, pig, human components: farm trade watchdog
Apr 27, 2009 |
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The top agency for health in farm animals on Monday said Mexico's outbreak of deadly influenza was unleashed by a pathogen mixed from bird, human and hog viruses and branded the term "swine flu" as wrong and harmful to pig ...
Island monkeys do not recognize big cat calls
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Jan 17, 2008 |
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Monkeys living on an island without big cat predators do not show any particular alarm when recorded tiger growls are played to them, according to research by a UC Davis graduate student. The pig-tailed langurs do, however, ...
4 out of 106 heart replacement valves from pig hearts failed
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Pig heart valves used to replace defective aortic valves in human patients failed much earlier and more often than expected, says a report from cardiac surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. This ...
Cross-species transplant in rhesus macaques is step toward diabetes cure for humans
Oct 18, 2007 |
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With an eye on curing diabetes, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have successfully transplanted embryonic pig pancreatic cells destined to produce insulin into diabetic macaque monkeys – ...
Hey Porky Pig: You Deserve Some Respect, Expert Says
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Feb 08, 2007 |
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It’s the Chinese Year of the Pig, and if any animal ever needed a good PR campaign, it might be the pig. Many animal experts think pigs get a bad rap. They are often viewed as dirty creatures that are not smart ...
