AN RAMON, Calif.--The bioinformatics company D’Trends announced that Da Hsuan Feng has joined its board. Feng is a general manager with the information technology company Science Applications International. He is also a professor of physics at Drexel University and an advisor to US Representative Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) on China and Central Europe issues.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the US Food and Drug Administration may soon allow clinical trials that involve transplanting pig organs into humans.
Harvard Medical School researchers suggest people should bank stool samples when they are young to transplant when they later develop age-related diseases.
In Science this week: unique cell populations found within breast milk, 100 transcriptionally distinct cell populations uncovered in the cerebral cortex, and more.
