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World’s Fist Pig Human Created In Lab

The world’s first pig human hybrid has been created in a laboratory at the Salk Institute in the United States.  Scientists say that this is the first ever successful human-animal hybrid experiment, proving that human cells can thrive inside of an animal host Nationalgeographic.com reports: This biomedical advance has long been a dream and a quandary for scientists hoping to address a critical shortage of donor organs. Every ten minutes, a person is added to the national waiting list for organ transplants. And every day, 22 people on that list die without the organ they need. What if, rather than relying on a generous donor, you could grow a custom organ inside an animal instead? That’s now one step closer to reality, an international team of researchers led by the Salk Institute reports in the journal Cell. The team created what’s known scientifically as a chimera: an organism that contains cells from two different species. In the past, human-animal chimeras have been beyond reach. Such experiments are currently ineligible for public funding in the United States (so far, the Salk team has relied on private donors for the chimera project). Public opinion, too, has hampered the creation of organisms that are [...]

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