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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: SZonian on January 26, 2017, 07:58:40 pm

Title: First human-pig embryos may carve path for transplants
Post by: SZonian on January 26, 2017, 07:58:40 pm

Scientists have grown human cells inside pig embryos, a very early step toward the goal of growing livers and other human organs in animals to transplant into people.

The cells made up just a tiny part of each embryo, and the embryos were grown for only a few weeks, researchers reported Thursday.

Such human-animal research has raised ethical concerns. The U.S. government suspended taxpayer funding of experiments in 2015. The new work, done in California and Spain, was paid for by private foundations.

Any growing of human organs in pigs is “far away,” said Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., an author of the paper in the journal Cell.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/01/26/first-human-pig-embryos-may-carve-path-transplants/97094752/

Title: Re: First human-pig embryos may carve path for transplants
Post by: geronl on January 26, 2017, 08:00:39 pm

_{*This article has nothing to do with Michael Moore}

Title: Re: First human-pig embryos may carve path for transplants
Post by: Weird Tolkienish Figure on January 26, 2017, 08:00:43 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42zKhHgWb9s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42zKhHgWb9s)

Title: Re: First human-pig embryos may carve path for transplants
Post by: EC on January 26, 2017, 08:05:15 pm

Not sure if I like the potential for mixing two completely separate disease pools.  :shrug:

Title: Re: First human-pig embryos may carve path for transplants
Post by: bigheadfred on January 28, 2017, 03:19:31 pm

Quote from: EC on January 26, 2017, 08:05:15 pm

Not sure if I like the potential for mixing two completely separate disease pools.  :shrug:

Can you imagine the horror if people came down with Swine Flu????