Shuffling mouse's genetic deck may illuminate causes of complex diseases

Article Abstract:

Eight mouse strains, including a strain predisposed to obesity and a strain with delayed stem cell death, eye abnormalities and hearing loss are used to create 1000 inbred strains that shed light on complex diseases in humans. Churchill, of the Bar Harbor, Maine-based laboratory, used mice because rodent research offers the opportunity to control myriad variables that make studies in human difficult.

Maine, Mice, Mice (Rodents), Mouse leukemia complex

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Prions found in deer body fluids

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A new research has shown that blood and saliva of deer with chronic wasting disease carry infectious prions that can easily transmit the disease to other deer. The latest study has established that prion disease can be transmitted through blood and the presence of infectious chronic wasting disease prions in saliva explains the disease's facile transmission.

Wasting syndrome, Prion diseases, Disease/Disorder overview

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Trials reveal promising options for treating juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

Article Abstract:

Results from clinical trials conducted for treatment of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis also called juvenile idiopathic arthritis are presented.

United States, Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Immunology, Care and treatment, Evaluation, Clinical trials, Genetic aspects, Rheumatoid arthritis in children, Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

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