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Fellow Members of The Regenerative Bioscience Center are Making Moves!

A fellow research team from the University of Georgia’s Regenerative Bioscience Center has found that a compound molecule used for drug delivery of insulin could be used to treat glioblastoma, an aggressive, usually fatal form of brain cancer. Read more here!

Aug
19

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UGA Researchers Use Pig Brains to Delve Into Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, CTE

In the animal kingdom, pigs sometimes get a bad rap. We frequently use insults such as “filthy as a pig” in our daily conversations. But, perhaps we should change this to “helpful as a pig,” as pigs might play a critical role in helping to research Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s Disease, and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). University of Georgia Regenerative Bioscience Center researchers Franklin West and Qun Zhao join the program to discuss their work with Chris Shupe. https://www.wuga.org/post/athens-news-matters-uga-researchers-use-pig-brains-delve-alzheimers-parkinsons-cte#stream/0

Jun
21

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Pigs help scientists understand human brain

Using resting state fMRI, an imaging method normally reserved for humans to analyze brain activity in live agricultural swine models, we have discovered that pig brains are even better platforms than previously thought for the study of human neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Check out the story here!
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