http://www.syndicatemizzou.org Thu, 24 May 2012 07:32:09 GMT en-us 40 Center for eResearch Connecting you with the University of Missouri’s innovative research and creative activity http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/images/logo.png 384 80 http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/prather/ipod/Prather03(Pig_to_Human).m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/prather/ipod/Prather03(Pig_to_Human).m4v A fundamental medical challenge for species-to-species organ donations involves sugar molecules that are recognized as foreign by preexisting antibodies. Prather and his team have modified pigs by removing the sugar molecule on the surface of their organs and then transferred those organs into baboons. So far the pig kidneys have not caused the kind of hyperacute rejection seen in similar organ transplants. 3 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:25:36 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/zaghouani/ipod/Zaghouani_1_areas.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/zaghouani/ipod/Zaghouani_1_areas.m4v Habib Zaghouani, along with his team of graduate and post-doctoral fellows, is working on four different projects in the lab. The first examines why newborn babies are so susceptible to infection, the second tries to understand how the immune system’s memory works, while the third and fourth aim at developing treatments for specific diseases: type I diabetes and multiple sclerosis. 3 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:49:07 GMT