Thread: Pentagon Regrowing Soldiers’ Muscles From Pig Cells

Pentagon Regrowing Soldiers’ Muscles From Pig Cells

By Katie Drummond November 9, 2011 | 3:29 pm
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A few pig cells, a single surgery and a rigorous daily workout: They’re the three ingredients that patients will need to re-grow fresh, functional slabs of their own muscle, courtesy of Pentagon-backed science that’s already being used to rebuild parts of people.

The research team behind the project, based out of the University of Pittsburgh, has made remarkably swift progress: Mere months after starting their first-ever clinical trial, they’ve already operated on four soldiers and are now training groups of surgeons from across the country in perfecting the approach. If progress continues at this pace, the trial will wrap in 24 months and the technique will become “a standard of care for orthopedists and trauma surgeons,â€

US Researchers And Pharmaceutical Companies Conducting Human Experimentation in Africa

By Farid Zakaria

November 7, 2011 "PBFC" -- A new policy brief faults prominent institutions and drug companies like Pfizer, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, and Population Council, for their involvement in unethical and illegal human experimentation in Africa.
The report is titled “Non-Consensual Research in Africa: The Outsourcing of Tuskegeeâ€