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Tipoffs for Jacksonville, Florida (Public Policy) Newsletter for Wednesday January 10, 2024 ( 2 items )  

Nemours Children's Health Researchers Find Zika Virus is Effective When Used to Treat a Type of Childhood Cancer in Mice
JACKSONVILLE, Florida, Jan. 10 (TNSres) -- Nemours Children's Health System issued the following news release on Jan. 9, 2024: Injecting neuroblastoma tumors with Zika virus shrank or eliminated those tumors in studies with mice, suggesting that the virus could someday serve as an effective cancer therapy, according to a study led by Nemours Children's Health researchers and published today in Cancer Research Communications, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Neuroblast  more

PETA: Statue of 'Maimed' Chicken Would Memorialize Animals Hacked Apart at Old Tyson Foods Factory
JACKSONVILLE, Florida, Jan. 10 -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals issued the following news release: In remembrance of the millions of chickens and other animals who were tormented, killed, and sent to the Tyson Foods meat-processing plant that just closed its doors in the Paxon area, PETA is applying to place a statue of an injured chicken in Jacksonville to remind everyone that animals--who feel pain and fear just as humans do--don't have to be mutilated to make nuggets and other   more