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The Neurobiology of Itch

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Fall 2013

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Not Going Viral

A Pitt med team is beginning to sort out how the placenta protects the fetus from viral infection. Read More >

Surrogate Organs

A researcher at Pitt has managed to grow working livers—and other organs—in animal lymph nodes. Read More >

Promethean Effort

Among regenerative medicine types, liver research docs, and, really, any ardent fans of tissue biology, one often-cited story is the Greek myth of Prometheus, cocreator of humankind. Read More >

Rejection Reconsidered

Frankly, a lot of people are going to give a damn about new findings by Fadi Lakkis and colleagues. It turns out that organ rejection in transplantation doesn’t happen for the reasons scientists had thought. Read More >