Breakthrough in xenotransplantation of organs?

Breakthrough in the xenotransplantation of organs?

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With genes editing and clones, scientists from the cells of pigs were able to remove the genes of probably for organ-sensor’s sensible retroviruses

Scientists with the conglers Crispr-CAS9 may have succeeded in gaining a breakthrough of people from pigs from pigs. Pigs are considered to be particularly suitable for winning them organs for xenotransplantation, just because of the similar coarse. However, there is a coarse problem because the human body not only abbed out foreign organs, but because it gives numerous endogenous retroviruses (PERV) in the genome of pigs, which can emigrate in a transplantation into human cells and zoonoseless can. There is a risk of immunodeficiency and tumor formation, but is uncertain how high the risk is really or if it is present at all.

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Balticity: the watermelon protects against the bite orange

In Riga, a meeting between the EU defense ministers and NATO General Secretar Jens Stoltenberg took place on Wednesday

Stoltenberg secured Latvia the support of NATO in the federal federal force and explained at a press conference along with the President Andris Bērziņš that details of the rapid conflagration force was discussed spearhead. NATO will continue to be water in the air and on the floor in the Baltic. Also, the construction of a new NATO command center in Riga was discussed.

Balticity: The watermelon protects against the bite orange

NATO General Secretar Stoltenberg with the Defense Ministers in Riga. Image: NATO

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Plankton increases co2 recording with increasing co2 content in the air

The Kiel scientists who have completed the study, but at the same time, warn significant risks for okosystems with increased CO2 recording

The first companies have already been founded in order to be at the front of the lucrative emissions trading of carbon dioxide certificates with the seasons. Especially only the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has uplifted its concerns about such coarse interventions on climate change and confessed to regulate such attempts (critics of commercial seaweed for climate control achieves first success). A scientific team under the direction of the Leibniz Institute for Sea Sciences (IFM-Geomar) in Kiel has now submitted a study after which the seasons could be more efficient when he has previously adopted.

Plankton increases CO2 recording with increasing CO2 content in the air

Microalgae under the microscope: CO2 eaters in the ocean, A. Stuhr, IFM-Geomar

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