Get your spares at the organ farm

• Autores: Michael Slezak
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2923, 2013, págs. 6-7
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A team of biologists is paving the way for growing entirely human organs inside pigs. The aim is to duplicate inside a host animal the kidney, say, of someone needing an organ transplant. Experiments building up to such organ farms have been carried out in pigs, mice and rats in Japan. So far, regulations there have made the next stage impossible--using human stem cells to make human-animal chimeras. But last week, the Japanese government announced new rules which should allow Hiromitsu Nakauchi and his group at the University of Tokyo to grow animals that are partly human.