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New hope for increasing the nation's too-small supply of transplantable organs came Thursday as researchers publicized the completion of a 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...
Scientists used cloning methods to locate and remove the GGTA1 gene from the pigs. GGTA1 is one of two genes that trigger the human immune response and resulting organ rejection. If a strain of pig is developed that lacks these genes, scientists believe that they could harvest their vital organs...
But they took another dive, in part because of news that the draft included fewer than 40,000 genes--about 60,000 short of the number expected. After Sept. 11, biotech crashed along with the rest of the market, but it has lately risen resolutely. One reason is all the...
CuraGen of New Haven, Conn., is one of the innovative firms that have refined this art. Its proprietary technology--an adaptation of a decade-old technique--allows CuraGen's scientists to put human genes into yeast cells and effectively "fish" for proteins relevant to drug discovery. "We learned at the...
But bioinformatics isn't just about genes and proteins anymore. "It's now used to describe how to manage and integrate all information from the drug-discovery process through clinical trials," says Pradip Banerjee, an analyst at consultancy Accenture. That's why drug giant Merck bought Kirkland, Wash.-based Rosetta...