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A Gene-Edited Pig Liver Was Hooked to a Human for 10 Days and It Actually Worked
What makes this new study different is the duration and depth of analysis. The liver was fully vascularized and remained ...
Michigan resident dies from rabies after contracting virus from transplanted organ, health officials say
A Michigan resident has died of rabies after receiving a transplanted organ in Ohio, the Toledo-Lucas County (Ohio) Health ...
Russia Denies Reports of Mystery Virus Causing Victims to Cough Up Blood
Moscow said there is "no evidence of a new or unidentified virus" as viral rumors spread on Russian social media.
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What’s a phage and why might your body be hosting thousands of them?
The viruses we know best are the ones that make us sick – the influenza viruses that send us to bed and the smallpox viruses that may send us to the grave. But healthy people are rife with ...
Michigan patient dies after contracting rabies through a transplanted organ
Potential organ donors are screened for viruses, bacteria and other infections, but rabies isn’t usually among those tests.
H5N1 influenza viral lineages beginning to evade human immunological defenses, research finds
New computational modeling of avian influenza variants' immunoprotein interactions—developed by a research team at the ...
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All Politics Is Local -- Including HHS Funding Cuts
Cuts to the HHS staff and budget will have far-reaching effects on state and local health departments, and some repercussions ...
First gene-edited pig liver into human patient in China functioned for 10 days, study finds
The trial was part of a small — but growing — group of animal-to-human organ transplants, in a practice known as ...
Organ transplant patient in Michigan dies from rabies
A Michigan resident died earlier this year after contracting rabies from an organ transplant, health officials said. The ...
How bacteria 'vaccinate' themselves with genetic material from dormant viruses
Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the ...
Zika and Dengue Viruses Attack the Immune System in Different Ways
Zika virus and dengue virus are very close relatives. Both are mosquito-borne flaviviruses and both specialize in infecting a host’s dendritic cells. However, scientists show that these two viruses ...