Module 3: Finding Articles

MODULE 3: UNDERSTANDING INDEXES

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Merger signals shift in xenotransplantation research. Karen Birmingham. Nature

Medicine Nov 2000 v6 i11 p1195(1)

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Nature Medicine, Nov 2000 v6 i11 p1195(1)

Merger signals shift in xenotransplantation research. Karen Birmingham.

Abstract: This article discusses the merger of Cambridge based Imutran, a compmany which has developed genetically modified pigs, with American company BioTransplant. The author maintains this will set back research conducted in the United Kingdom on xenotransplantation, especially since the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland announced they will discontinue research on transgenic pigs.

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JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association, May 9, 2001 v 285 i18 p2319

These Little Piggies...(transgenic pigs for human organ transplants)(The World in Medicine) Joan Stephenson.

Thousands of patients with failing hearts or other organs die before a suitable donor organ for transplantation can be located. Scientists have long suggessted that the worlwide organ shortage could be alleviated by using animals such as pigs as organ sources for human transplantations, if a major obstacle - immunological incompatability - could be overcome.

Now researchers from two biotechnology companies - PPL Therapeutics Plc (the Edinburg-based company that helped create Dolly, the first cloned mammal) and Infigen, a DeForest, Wis-based firm -- have taken a significant step toward overcoming that obstacle with the creation of transgenic cloned piglets. Each of the piglets has a marker gene (the PPL piglets have a jellyfish gene that encodes a fluorescent protein and the Infigen piglets have a neomvcim-resistance gene) to demonstrate the feasibility of producing genetially idential animals from genetically altered cells.