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Easy and rapid generation of light-emitting somatic-transgenic mice to monitor specific disease states and to screen effective drugs (SomaBio)
Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2015,
For decades, researchers have used small mammals to study the underlying processes of human disease and potential therapies for such ailments. Current strategies for measuring disease progression and/or drug effect usually involve groups of animals being killed at multiple time points for post-mortem tissue analysis. Recently, transgenic strains of mice have been created in which light-emitting lu ...
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Electrically modified biomaterials surface (BioElectricSurface)
Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2011,
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), cardiovascular diseases cause half the deaths in the EU. It is also the main cause of years of life lost (over 30 per cent) in early death thus causing huge pressure on the labour force and family earnings. The problem is becoming more acute in Central and Eastern European countries. Due to the ageing population in the EU, osteoporosis related bone ...
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