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Scientists create hybrid human-pig in lab.
Scientists have revealed that they have managed to create a hybrid of a human and animal in the lab. They said that the success of the project proves that the cells of a human being can be introduced into an organism that is non-human and they can survive and go on to grow in a host animal, which in this instance is a pig.
22 People Every Day Die Waiting for an Organ on the Organ Donor List
This is a biomedical advancement that scientists have always dreamed about but at the same time has left scientists in a quandary as they have hoped to be able to reach a solution to the shortage of donor organs, which is now at a critical level. Scientists said that every ten minutes someone is put on the national waiting list to have an organ transplant. Every day 22 people who are waiting on that list pass away as they have not been given the organ they need. They posed the question of what if people did not have to rely on the death of another and a donor as custom organs could be grown inside a host animal.
While this might sound far-fetched and something out of a movie, scientists are now one step closer to making this become reality. Researchers from the Salk Institute said that they have created a chimera: an organism that is able to contain cells that come from two separate species.
Chimera Research Is Not Eligible For Funding In the USA
In the past, this is something that has been out of reach of the scientists. At the moment experiments such as these are not eligible to receive funding in the US. Up to this point, Salk and the rest of the team have had to rely on private donations. Another factor that hampers organism creation that is part animal and part human is the opinion of the public.
Jun Wu, the lead study author at the Salk Institute believes that people should look at it from a different perspective and pointed to mythical chimeras which he said included human-bird hybrids that people call angels. He went on to say that ancient civilizations always linked chimeras with God. Ancestors believed that a chimera will guard over a human and he pointed out that this is what the scientists hope for with the human-animal hybrid in the future.
Two Different Ways to Make a Chimera
Basically, there are two different ways to make a chimera. The first way relies on introducing organs from one animal to another and this is the riskiest due to the fact that the immune system of the host could reject the organ. The other way starts back at an embryonic level when one of the cells of one animal is introduced to the embryo of the other and they then fuse and grow into the hybrid. While this might sound strange it does happen to be one way of eventually being able to solve some of the most puzzling of biological issues with organs that are grown in the lab.
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Scientists create hybrid human-pig in lab.
Scientists have revealed that they have managed to create a hybrid of a human and animal in the lab. They said that the success of the project proves that the cells of a human being can be introduced into an organism that is non-human and they can survive and go on to grow in a host animal, which in this instance is a pig.
22 People Every Day Die Waiting for an Organ on the Organ Donor List
This is a biomedical advancement that scientists have always dreamed about but at the same time has left scientists in a quandary as they have hoped to be able to reach a solution to the shortage of donor organs, which is now at a critical level. Scientists said that every ten minutes someone is put on the national waiting list to have an organ transplant. Every day 22 people who are waiting on that list pass away as they have not been given the organ they need. They posed the question of what if people did not have to rely on the death of another and a donor as custom organs could be grown inside a host animal.
While this might sound far-fetched and something out of a movie, scientists are now one step closer to making this become reality. Researchers from the Salk Institute said that they have created a chimera: an organism that is able to contain cells that come from two separate species.
Chimera Research Is Not Eligible For Funding In the USA
In the past, this is something that has been out of reach of the scientists. At the moment experiments such as these are not eligible to receive funding in the US. Up to this point, Salk and the rest of the team have had to rely on private donations. Another factor that hampers organism creation that is part animal and part human is the opinion of the public.
Jun Wu, the lead study author at the Salk Institute believes that people should look at it from a different perspective and pointed to mythical chimeras which he said included human-bird hybrids that people call angels. He went on to say that ancient civilizations always linked chimeras with God. Ancestors believed that a chimera will guard over a human and he pointed out that this is what the scientists hope for with the human-animal hybrid in the future.
Two Different Ways to Make a Chimera
Basically, there are two different ways to make a chimera. The first way relies on introducing organs from one animal to another and this is the riskiest due to the fact that the immune system of the host could reject the organ. The other way starts back at an embryonic level when one of the cells of one animal is introduced to the embryo of the other and they then fuse and grow into the hybrid. While this might sound strange it does happen to be one way of eventually being able to solve some of the most puzzling of biological issues with organs that are grown in the lab.
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