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Officials say the illness was likely contracted it from a pet cat. Plague isn’t common, but it also isn’t unheard of in the western US, where a handful of cases occur every year.
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Researchers have externally attached a pig liver to a brain-dead human and watched it successfully filter blood. The experiment is a step toward one day trying the technique in patients with liver failure.
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Lawrence Faucette was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart in September.
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Doctors said the 58-year-old patient wasn’t eligible for a traditional heart transplant. While the next few weeks will be critical, doctors were thrilled at his early response to the genetically modified pig organ.
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The genetically modified kidney worked properly the first month before showing subtle signs that rejection was forming. But doctors say the kidney's function bounced back with simple medication changes.
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CSI-type genetic analysis has been used to solve medical mysteries in humans. Now a central Florida team of researchers are using genetic analysis to find…