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- They theorize that using the miniature swine would minimize the risk.
- All of MU's miniature swine piglets were female.
- Immerge used cells from a breed of miniature swine developed by the National Institutes of Health.
- In September and October 2001, the research team delivered seven miniature swine piglets from three sows.
- Prather said the miniature swine used in the study are a scientifically developed strain that has been highly interbred for decades.
- Roughly a third the size of domestic pigs, miniature swine were chosen because their organs are closer in size to human organs.
- Prather long has worked to clone special miniature swine that may some day be used as sources of organs for transplantation into humans.
- Prather said he had used Yucatan miniature swine as they have better potential as organ sources for human transplants because of their size.
- Its pigs descend from a highly inbred species of miniature swine and have been screened for more than two dozen viruses and infectious diseases.
- Also, using miniature swine for their testing, scientists have been unable to spread to human tissue a virus that all pigs carry.
- BioTransplant began creating a highly inbred species of miniature swine nearly a decade ago to create a pool of potential organs as genetically similar as possible.
- Yet at his University of Missouri office, Prather leads a team of researchers who have cloned miniature swine more valued for their hearts than their hams.
- Prather and Immerge announced a year ago in the journal Science that they had successfully cloned the world's first single knock-out miniature swine.
- BioTransplant Inc ., Immerge BioTherapeutics Inc ., and Massachusetts General Hospital have won patent protection for a method of screening tissues and cells for the presence of swine or miniature swine retrovirus.
- BioTransplant began creating a highly inbred species of miniature swine eight years ago to create a pool of potential organs that were as genetically similar _ and therefore predictable _ as possible without cloning the animals.
- Scientists at BioTransplant Inc . say they have created a breed of miniature swine that doesn't infect human cells with potentially harmful viruses, removing a major obstacle for using pig organs for human transplants.
- Organs for transplants, he explained, might come from BioTransplant's miniature swine _ 250-pound pigs with human-size organs that do not produce a porcine virus that can infect human cells.
- "The miniature swine has the potential to donate an organ to any human being dying of organ failure, " he says, " from a newborn baby to a sumo wrestler ."
- That $ 30 million deal, announced in late September, is based on BioTransplant's breeding of miniature swine that reportedly do not transmit disease to humans and on both companies'research in preventing human rejection of animal tissue.
- And the pig's size _ especially a strain of miniature swine that weigh 250 to 300 pounds, compared to 1, 000 pounds or more for full-size swine _ is in the right range for human transplant purposes.
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