Lord Winston to farm pigs for transplants - The Sunday Times 7th September 2008

Monday, September 08, 2008

Lord Winston, the fertility expert and Labour peer, is to begin breeding genetically modified pigs in the next three months to produce hearts, livers and kidneys for transplanting to humans. Winston has pioneered a simplified technique to create pigs with “humanised” organs that will not be rejected by the patients’ immune systems.

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