Spanish scientists have successfully combined human kidney organoids with pig kidneys and transplanted them back into the same animal, therefore creating the world’s first functional human-pig hybrid ...
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A new study, published in the journal Science, reveals how millennia of human migration across Pacific islands led to the ...
There may be good reasons to object to using animals as living organ factories, including welfare concerns. But the rationale ...