Can pigs grow human organs?

• Autores: Clare Wilson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3110, 2017, pág. 8
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Transplant waiting lists could become a thing of the past if people could find a way to grow human organs inside other animals. Now mouse pancreases have been grown inside rats--a first step towards a ready supply of organs for transplant. When small parts of these organs were transplanted into mice with diabetes, it reversed their disease. This finding raises the prospect that someone needing a new liver, for instance, could have what is essentially their own organ grown to order inside a specially conceived piglet, within a year of providing a small skin sample. Pigs or sheep make the best candidates, because their organs are a similar size to humans.