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Resource News International, August, 2001
Winnipeg, MB, Aug 01, 2001
ALTERED MOUSE BOOSTS HEPATITIS C RESEARCH
A team of Canadian researchers has grown a mouse with a mostly human liver, a scientific feat that could speed the discovery of a cure for hepatitis C, a contagious viral disease that afflicts 175 million people worldwide.
Until now, the search for a cure has been hampered by a lack of methods for studying the hepatitis C virus, which only infects humans and chimpanzees.
"We've solved that problem," said principal investigator Norman Kneteman, a transplant surgeon at University Hospital in Edmonton. The study is published today in the journal Nature Medicine.
Until now, drug and vaccine development has been slowed by the nature of the hepatitis C virus,...
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