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Research out this week appears to show the potential longevity of transplanted organs from genetically engineered pigs. Scientists gave monkeys kidneys from these animals, finding that some were able to live for one to two years. Many of the genetic changes evaluated in this study could make pig-to-human transplants a more viable treatment to test out in clinical trials, the team says.
Constructing bacteria to become drug resistant only when they took up DNA containing cancer-associated changes, could be useful in detecting cancer.
Blood tests reveal there have been potential genetic mutations in the affected dolphins of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Scientists are starting to understand the precise workings of a type of gene that, unlike other genes, does not code for proteins in treating neurological conditions.
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