Human-Animal Chimeras Are Gestating on U.S. Research Farms

[Dexter]

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/545106/human-animal-chimeras-are-gestating-on-us-research-farms/

Braving a funding ban put in place by America’s top health agency, some U.S. research centers are moving ahead with attempts to grow human tissue inside pigs and sheep with the goal of creating hearts, livers, or other organs needed for transplants.