Ferrets are often used in flu research because the animal's respiratory tract responds to flu viruses in much the same way as a human's.
The change lets it grow in a human respiratory tract, which is cooler than the virus' natural home: a bird's gastrointestinal tract.
It has gold and the country's largest tract of arable land.
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In a report published late Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, samples from three patients -- all of whom died -- had mutations that have previously been shown to increase transmissibility, and to help the virus grow in a mammal's respiratory tract.
Ulcerative colitis is limited to the colon, while Crohn's disease can affect the entire gastrointestinal tract.
The Rivers family published a short religious tract about their son's death.
Forester Boykin said it's worth it to conserve such a large tract of land and water.
Mr Dilly Anumba, a consultant obstetrician at Sheffield University who has recently published work showing that TLRs are present in the female genital tract, said Professor Bennett's theories were logical and well worth pursuing.
MediPharma has two drugs derived from Chinese herbs in midstage clinical trials in the U.S., one to improve the potency of radiation therapy on head and neck cancer and the other to treat Crohn's disease, an inflammation of the digestive tract.
The changes were made because it was discovered that infective endocarditis is more likely to occur after frequent exposure to bacteria from routine activities such as chewing food or brushing one's teeth than from occasional dental, gastrointestinal tract or genitourinary tract procedures.
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It's good for inflammation, particularly of the gastrointestinal tract.
But David Frayer and Chris Nicolay at the University of Kansas have, over the past couple of years, shown that it is at least equally plausible that Neanderthals possessed a vocal tract similar to a modern adult's.
It's enough to say that they share a single digestive tract.
"There's no question about this book being a Sunday school tract about how to live your life or advice of any kind, " he told the BBC.
It's also possible, says Mathur, that the release of methane slows the transit of digested food through the intestinal tract, and that could increase the time for additional calories from digested food to be absorbed and added to the body's tally.
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