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Have You Seen The Little Piggies?(pigs engineered to provide organs for humans)(Brief Article)
Biotech rivals bickered over a momentous milestone last week: the first cloned pigs genetically engineered to keep their organs from being rejected by human transplant recipients. Immerge BioTherapeutics Inc. had scheduled a Jan. 3 announcement of the event, which came on Sept. 21, but PPL Therapeutics stole its thunder by announcing a day earlier that its own litter of swine came into the world on Christmas Day.
In both cases, researchers "knocked out" the pig gene that sticks sugar molecules onto the surface of organs; the human immune system attaches to those sugars, recognizes the organ as foreign and rejects it. PPL's five little piggies and Immerge's original seven (four survive) could therefore be important ...
- Allen to provide organs for Longwood Gardens. (Industry Forefront).
- Magazine article from: Music Trades November 1, 2001 700+ words
ALLEN ORGAN Company will provide organs for musical events at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. The famous Longwood Gardens pipe organ (146 ranks and...
- U.S. Researchers Successfully Clone First Knockout Miniature Swine; - Study...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 3, 2002 700+ words
...response after it perceives a 'foreign' organ," said Randall Prather, Ph.D., MU Distinguished Professor of Reproductive...prnewswire.com/prn/11690X67024040 Contact: For Randall Prather - Jason L. Jenkins or Christian Basi at the University...
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- Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) May 31, 1996 700+ words
...Once you get the founder transgenic animal, it's all downhill from there,'' animal scientist and project co-leader Randall Prather told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ''But you have to get those animals with the gene in it functioning the way you...
- Data presented on first cloned, double knock-out miniature swine.
- Newspaper article from: Immunotherapy Weekly February 5, 2003 700+ words
...com & NewsRx.net) -- In a session at the annual meeting of the International Embryo Transfer Society (IETS), Randall Prather, PhD, distinguished professor of reproductive biotechnology at the University of Missouri-Columbia, announced the successful...
- Leading experts challenge Clonaid to prove claim.
- Newspaper article from: Biotech Week January 29, 2003 700+ words
...experts emphasized that current cloning techniques have been shown to seriously compromise the health of cloned offspring. Randall Prather, distinguished professor of reproductive biotechnology at the University of Missouri-Columbia; Ian Wilmut, an embryologist...
- CLINTON SEEKS FEDERAL REVIEW OF CLONING BIOETHICS PANEL ASKED TO LOOK AT...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) February 25, 1997 700+ words
...how they will study a biological system and how they will take it apart to understand its molecular basis, Silver said. Randall Prather, an animal scientist at the University of Missouri in Columbia, said he and other animal scientists have different interests...
- Immerge Knockout Pig.(15th Annual Best Of What's New/Medical Tech/Grand Award...
- Magazine article from: Popular Science Ferber, Dan December 1, 2002 700+ words
Byline: Dan Ferber Randall Prather never imagined pigs like these. No one had. When he was growing up in rural Wisconsin, pigs were raised for meat. But in September...
- MAJOR ADVANCE IS MADE IN CLONING HUMAN CELLS RESEARCH MAY LEAD TO REPLACEMENT...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) December 17, 1998 700+ words
...Seed experiment,'' the highly publicized announcement by a Chicago scientist that he planned to clone a human, said Randall Prather, an associate professor of animal science at the University of Missouri at Columbia. ``They stopped it before they got...