organ transplants
08/11/2017 / By Isabelle Z.
HORROR FARMS: Genetically altered pigs to be grown and harvested for human organ transplants
Harvard geneticist Dr. George Church has announced that the first organ transplants from pigs to humans could take place in just two years, after scientists found a way to combine gene editing and cloning to overcome some of the longstanding obstacles to pig organ transplants in an act that takes going against nature to new […]
01/21/2016 / By Chris Draper
Biotech scientists now raising human–animal chimeras on U.S. farms
Despite a funding ban, several U.S. research facilities are moving forward with experiments that could produce human–animal chimeras. The possibility is fueled by scientists attempting to grow human organs inside animals like sheep and pigs. Approximately 20 animals have been impregnated with human organs in the last year under the watchful eyes of American universities. […]
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