Solid, Humanized Kidneys Grown in Pigs
May 14, 2024 | Terry Sharrer
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In a first, solid humanized kidneys grown inside pigs
Researchers at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health and Wuyi University “have successfully created chimeric embryos containing a combination of human and pig cells. When transferred into surrogate pig mothers, the developing humanized kidneys had normal structure and tubule formation after 28 days. This is the first time that scientists have been able to grow a solid humanized organ inside another species, though previous studies have used similar methods to generate human tissues such as blood or skeletal muscle in pigs.” MORE
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