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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with bioethicist and professor at Lehigh University, Michael Gusmano, about the ethics of using cloned, genetically modified pigs for human organ transplants.
Choosing the perfect guinea pig breed involves understanding each breed’s unique characteristics. These small, social rodents ...
In a first step toward FDA approval of kidney xenotransplantation, a living human with end-stage kidney disease may receive a ...
Pig-to-human transplants. ... Eventually, researchers hope to breed pigs with these genetic changes, which will be cheaper and easier to make at the scale needed to provide for human organs.
Pigs have emerged as especially promising, because they are easy to breed and their organs are genetically similar to human organs. Cross-species transplantation — or xenotransplantation ...
Scientists are optimistic that gene-edited animals could provide a new source of organs for transplantation. Pig organs modified to minimize rejection are now being tested in humans.
Pigs and humans are very similar. Human and pig organs are almost the same size, and many tissue types are almost identical. This is why pigs are useful when developing and testing new drugs.
For the new study, scientists picked the Yucatan breed of pig because it has a similar weight to the average American woman: about 150 pounds. Its kidney is also about the same size as a human’s.
Pigs and humans are pretty similar. Our organs, our skin and the way many diseases develop are largely the same. Pigs have therefore long been used to develop and test new medicines, even though ...
In the future, you might leave your doctor’s office with a prescription for a pig whose DNA has been modified to match your own. Scientists are already working on genetically engineering pigs to ...
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with bioethicist and professor at Lehigh University, Michael Gusmano, about the ethics of using cloned, genetically modified pigs for human organ transplants.
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with bioethicist and professor at Lehigh University, Michael Gusmano, about the ethics of using cloned, genetically modified pigs for human organ transplants.