For the first time, scientists produced human kidneys out of chimeric embryos containing a mix of pig cells and human stem cells. The same technique can be used to produce heart and pancreas.
A team of Chinese researchers has successfully grown early-stage developing human kidneys into female pigs using chimeric embryos.
“This is the first time a solid human organ has been grown inside an animal species other than humans,” Liangxue Lai, senior study author and a biologist at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, told Interesting Engineering.
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