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...idea came to mind. Because openings into joints can let bacteria in, I had kept Manuel on oral antibiotics. But I recalled an experiment done with lab mice bred in a sterile environment. Without any bacteria around they couldn't heal cuts in their skin. Maybe my antibiotics were suppressing some bacteria that were needed to coax these knee wounds to heal. So I stopped the antibiotics and brought Manuel back a week later. No dice - still no change...
...vaccine. “I would hope that we might be able to get to the first phase...of a vaccine trial within the next three to five years,” says QUT professor and fellow researcher Peter Timms. The team is working on developing genetically engineered mice whose T-cells are tailored to fight off chlamydia in order to monitor their response to the infection. So far, researchers at QUT have pinpointed several proteins that could be used in a chlamydia vaccine. Timms hopes to begin testing the vaccine on koalas this month. According to Timms, over half...
...wires cross or are just getting very close and veering off,” he said. “Wiring will be much easier when every wire is a different color.” Although the Harvard team has already used the technique to study the neural circuitry in mice, the researchers hope to further improve the method. “There are some technical limitations, so we would like to make a better Brainbow,” Lichtman said. “One way is to ensure that every nerve cell in the brain is colored, to make...
...exclusive interview with TIME, Silverman provided a list of 34 studies the company included in its FDA application, including one of the three mentioned in the AP article, which showed that less than 1% of 4,279 chipped mice developed tumors "clearly due to the implanted microchips" but were otherwise healthy, and that "no clinical symptoms except the nodule on their backs were shown." The second study, conducted in France in 2006, two years after VeriChip's FDA application was approved, found that while 4% of the 1,260 mice in the study developed tumors, none of them were malignant...
...Lawrence D. McGill, a veterinarian and leading expert in animal pathology says the tumor development in rodents is unsurprising. "Even if you put in a bland piece of plastic, it will produce tumors in rats and mice," says McGill, who assessed the studies on behalf of VeriChip. He says it would be a leap to apply the findings of studies in mice to cats or dogs - or to humans, for that matter - which are much more complex animals. Few official scientific studies have been conducted on the effects of microchip implants on house pets, but none have found a link...