With the delivery of the internal organs suitable for human transplantation can help a pig. Scientists from the University of California are preparing for the first time to use this animal to grow in his body the human pancreas.
As the BBC website, the scientists changed the DNA of pig so that it was possible to “embed” to the animal, human cells . Researchers hope to create an embryo pig pancreas, almost entirely consisting of the corresponding human organ cells. About a month later, when the light will be the first “modified” the pigs, we will know whether the experiment was a success.
It is worth noting that scientists themselves do not fully confident of success. Zoozaschitniki, in turn, declare their unethical and inhumanity of such an experiment.
In any case, pig medicine already had great service. For example, in 2011 the Russian heart surgeon Leo Bokeria, the first person implanted heart valve grown from biomaterial pigs.
And in April of this year, reported another successful experience of the body, which has become a donor pig. Her heart was transplanted baboon, monkey, and then lived for 945 days.
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