Archaeologists have identified a previously undocumented ingredient used in ancient Egyptian mummifications—and a famous medieval medicine concocted from the mummies themselves. At Germany’s Marburg University, researchers pinpointed traces of aloe-associated plant material in a 2,700-year-old mummy skull, and a popular centuries’ old apothecary cure-all known as Mumia vera aegyptiaca. There is no one way to
Animals SPF WT C57BL/6J (JAX, 000664) mice were obtained from The Jackson Laboratory. The following strains were also purchased from The Jackson Laboratory: Il21-VFP (B6.Cg-Il21tm1.1Hm/DcrJ, JAX, 030295)35, Il21r-knockout (B6.129-Il21rtm1Kopf/J, JAX, 019115)36, OT-II (B6.Cg-Tg(TcraTcrb)425Cbn/J, JAX, 004194)37, MD4 (C57BL/6-Tg(IghelMD4)4Ccg/J, JAX:002595)38, Jchain-creERT2 (B6(129)-Jchainem1(icre/ERT2)Deep/J, JAX, 035764)39, ROSA-DTA (B6.129P2-Gt(ROSA)26Sortm1(DTA)Lky/J, JAX, 009669)40, Ai9 (B6.Cg-Gt(ROSA)26Sortm9(CAG-tdTomato)Hze/J, JAX, 007909)41, Thy1.1 (B6.PL-Thy1a/CyJ, JAX, 000406), AID-cre
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