Sentences with phrase «cure laboratory mice»
MIAMI BEACH — A new drug has been shown to cure laboratory mice of tuberculosis much more quickly than standard treatments.
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But, as journalist Steve Connor reports, the reference to editing was intentional: «Scientists have used the genome - editing technology to cure adult laboratory mice of an inherited liver disease by correcting a single «letter» of the genetic alphabet which had been mutated in a vital gene involved in liver metabolism.»
(It's relatively easy to cure cancer in laboratory mice — «If you can't cure cancer in a mouse,» a cancer researcher once said to me, «then you should change careers» — but certainly not easy in people.
«Despite the low infection levels of mouse cells with oHSV, we were able to cause a delay in tumor growth in one of the cancer models and even cure many of the mice in a second model,» said first author Jennifer Leddon, who conducted much of the laboratory work during a research experience in the Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases.
Working in dystrophic mice while searching for a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), Dr. Huard's laboratory team first identified a unique population of muscle - derived stem cells with the ability to repair muscle 8 years ago.