Are we making pigs of ourselves? Researchers at UC Davis working on a project to grow transplant organs inside
pigs say they’ve successfully inserted human stem cells into pig embryos. Their hope is to grow donor organs for human beings — using CRISPR DNA editing to create a genetic “niche” — inside the engineered pigs, which otherwise look and behave like normal porkers. The U.S. National Institutes of Health has said it won’t support research into so-called chimeras until it determines whether the implanted cells make the animals more human.
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