Earlier this year, news broke of the first experimental xenotransplantation: A human patient with heart disease received a heart from a pig that had been genetically engineered to avoid rejection.
Scientists have for the first time repaired the mutated gene responsible for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in living pigs. Muscular dystrophy is a genetic disorder that causes progressive muscle ...
Muscle strips taken from chronically denervated hemidiaphragms of guinea pigs immunized to ovalbumin react in vitro to the administration of small amounts of this protein with a contraction similar to ...