Sentences with phrase «found severe birth defects»

But when Shinji Hirotsune and colleagues at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine accidentally disabled a pseudogene while making genetically modified mice, they found severe birth defects and a drastically limited life - span in offspring from the mutant animals.

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One victory: Gilla Kaplan, now a researcher at the Public Health Institute in Newark, New Jersey, found that the drug thalidomide — banned in 1962 after it was linked to severe birth defects — could reduce inflammatory responses and might be valuable in managing HIV, tuberculosis, cancer, and autoimmune diseases such as lupus.