How to Grow Human Organs in a Pig

 



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Via MIT Tech Review:

… results show that it was difficult to get any human cells to survive in pig embryos and contribute to a developing fetus. Their best effort resulted in only a minimal number of human cells. It’s likely that the larger genetic distance between pigs and man is to blame.

Link to the paper