Niigata

In order to produce offspring from xenotransplanted ovaries, Japanese researchers at Niigata University and University of Toyama conducted a study to establish a system to produce offspring from eggs obtained by transplanting rat ovaries into mice.

"This new offspring production system has the potential for the generation of genetically modified rats and could become one of the most effective methods of animal offspring production," says Dr. Hiroaki Taketsuru of Niigata University.

Another 16,000 residents in the Niigata and Yamagata prefectures north of Ishikawa were also told to evacuate, the AFP news agency said.

Published in Nature Communications, the research was led by teams at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Brain Research Institute at Niigata University in Japan.

"We're hopeful that our work will put us on the path toward improving the lives of patients with RVCL," said the other lead author of this study Taisuke Kato, PhD, an associate professor of Molecular Neuroscience at Niigata University.