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• n  tissue from an animal of one species used as a temporary graft (as in cases of severe burns) on an individual of another species

• The longest previous human survival with a heart xenograft was 3 days.

• heterograft

News & Articles

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• WuXi PharmaTech Announces Licensing Agreement for Patient-Derived Xenograft Models with Mayo Clinic's Center for ...
  SHANGHAI, Nov. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- WuXi PharmaTech (WX), a leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device research and development outsourcing company with operations in China and the United States, today announced a licensing agreement with Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine to expand WuXi's collection of patient-derived xenograft (PDX) mouse models.  These models ...
  Nov. 4, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
• WuXi PharmaTech inks licensing agreement with Mayo Clinic for PDX models
  WuXi PharmaTech ( WX +0.6% ) announces a licensing agreement with Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine. The deal gives WX an exclusive license to a "panel of patient-derived xenograft [mouse] models for prevailing cancers in Western countries." Ultimately, the goal here is to give WX a more extensive portfolio of models so that the company's customers can "select highly relevant ...
  Nov. 4, 2013 - Seeking Alpha