Dental researchers from Tufts University took cells from the dental pulp of a human tooth and mixed them with cells from the enamel of a pig tooth and seeded them onto a “scaffold.” It was then grown ...
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Putting pig organs in people is OK in the US, but growing human organs in pigs is not – why is that?
There may be good reasons to object to using animals as living organ factories, including welfare concerns. But the rationale behind the NIH ban that human cells could make pigs too human rests on a ...
Researchers successfully implanted a genetically modified pig liver into a human, proving that such an organ can function for ...
Losing a tooth is tough. If we lose the small living structures that help us chew our food, we're left with the options of replacing them with dentures or implants that can be costly. Beyond that, ...
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Experimental transplant of gene-edited pig liver into human offers hope for new frontier of research
Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead, and ...
Maryland-based United Therapeutics, a $14 billion pharmaceutical and biotech firm, is building a new 65,000-square-foot, $110 million pathogen-free facility on the edge of Stewartville to raise ...
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