Latest Findings On Mice
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Topic: Latest Findings On Mice
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Subject: Latest Findings On Mice
Date Posted: December 07 2007 at 13:39
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From this Decembers Harper's Magazine: " The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to three scientists who contributed to the development of “knock- out” mice, in which individual genes can be disabled to replicate the genetic origins of certain human diseases, Re- searchers repaired nerve damage in mice afflicted with multiple sclerosis, reversed the effects of Parkinson’s dis- ease in mice by giving them green tea, and found a way to treat muscular dystrophy by doubling the muscle mass of mice. Oncologists created a virus that forces mouse brain tumors to eat themselves, and immunologists iso- lated a genetic code for ulcerative colitis after huge num- bers of their lab mice began dying of bloody diarrhea. Sci- entists successfully created stem cells from the testicles of mice but worried that the “very painful” procedure, which can be used to treat only the subject from whom the cells are extracted, might encounter resistance in hu- man males. Researchers used herpes to kill mouse breast cancer, and other experts warned that women may be able to catch breast cancer from mice. The Adirondacks were plagued by mouse poison—resistant mice." ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: December 07 2007 at 14:15
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