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Should We Grow Human Organs In Pigs?
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Organ transplantation - surgically transferring an organ from one person into another.
- Xenotransplantation - transplanting organs between members of different species.
- Transplant rejection - when the organ recipient’s immune system destroys transplanted tissue.
- Pluripotent stem cells - embryonic cells that can give rise to all the different types of cells that make up the body.
- CRISPR - a genome editing tool that allows scientists to modify genes in living cells.
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Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago