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...gene responsible for the most severe form of rejection. Not only that. Both teams--one from PPL Therapeutics, which in 1996 helped make Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult animal, and the other from the University of Missouri-Columbia and Immerge BioTherapeutics, of Charlestown, Mass.--then cloned their little pigs, producing five and four piglets, respectively...
...significant step forward in developing pig organs for use in human patients. The announcements came from scientists on two different teams, one from PPL Therapeutics Inc. in Blacksburg, Virginia, and the other representing a joint effort by the University of Missouri and Immerge BioTherapeutics Inc., based in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Both groups reported they have produced pigs that lack GGTA1, one of two genes that cause the human body to reject organs harvested from swine. Experts, while careful to note that the final goal of transplantable pig organs is still years away, hailed the news. "It is not the final hurdle...
School of Education: The School of Education’s seal indicates Ezekiel Cheever, the most famous schoolmaster of seventeenth-century New England, and it is based on the arms that appear on the tomb of his grandson in the Charlestown burying ground...
...regular arrangement wasn’t close enough, local band Eloe Omoe (consisting of a drummer and bassist hailing from Charlestown) played smack-dab in the middle of the crowd, so that the closest spectators were standing literally inches away from a cymbal or bass amp. Despite not being quite as physically close as Eloe Omoe, the featured Chicago bands, My Name is Rar Rar and Lozenge, were able to eradicate any sense of distance that playing on stage would have normally produced...
...Laden brother, Sheik Bakr Mohammed bin Laden, in 1994 made two large scholarship donations to Harvard, while another relative, Mohammed M. bin Laden, owns six condominiums in the ritzy Flagship Wharf condominium complex in Charlestown...