News tagged with guinea pigs
Researchers develop new strategy for broad spectrum anti-viral drugs
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 23, 2008 |
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Bavituximab, an anti-viral drug developed by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers, shows promise as a new strategy to fight viral diseases, including potential bioterrorism agents.
One step closer to an artificial nerve cell
Jul 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and Linköping University (Sweden) are well on the way to creating the first artificial nerve cell that can communicate specifically with nerve cells in the body using neurotransmitters. ...
Vitamin C deficiency impairs early brain development
Sep 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Faculty of Life Sciences at University of Copenhagen shows that vitamin C deficiency may impair the mental development of new-born babies.
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Research reveals exactly how coughing is triggered by environmental irritants
Nov 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have revealed how environmental irritants such as air pollution and cigarette smoke cause people to cough, in research published today in the American Journal of Respiratory an ...
Ebola found in Philippine pigs for first time
Jul 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A form of ebola virus has been detected in pigs for the first time, raising concerns it could mutate and threaten humans, scientists report.
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.
Small numbers of patients with drug-resistant TB may account for high proportion of new infections
Sep 16, 2008 |
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Inadequate treatment of antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis (TB) can leave patients highly infectious, and small numbers of such patients may drive transmission of the disease in the very health care facilities intended to ...
Pigs learn to understand mirrors
Oct 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A study of domesticated pigs has found that with just a little experimentation they can find food based only on a reflection in a mirror.
Smoking out the mediators of airway damage caused by pollutants
Jun 21, 2008 |
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New insight into how pollution and cigarette smoke damage airways has been provided by Pierangelo Geppetti and colleagues, at the University of Florence, Italy, who studied the effects of such chemicals on guinea pig airways. ...
Commercial pigs in Ind. test positive for H1N1
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday that pigs in a commercial herd in Indiana have tested positive for swine flu, making it the first time the virus has been found in such hogs.
Pig study forces rethink of Pacific colonisation
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 15, 2007 |
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A survey of wild and domestic pigs has caused archaeologists to reconsider both the origins of the first Pacific colonists and the migration routes humans travelled to reach the remote Pacific.
Swine flu: What does it do to pigs?
May 11, 2009 |
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The effects of H1N1 swine flu have been investigated in a group of piglets.
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.
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