Human-Pig Hybrids!!!!

Scientists Create Human-Pig Hybrids to Grow Organs for Transplant

This is VERY WORRYING!

Posted: 02 Feb 2017 07:00 AM PST

Published in the journal Cell last week, researchers have successfully created the first human-pig hybrids by growing human cells inside early-stage embryos. This breakthrough raises the prospect of growing human organs in non-human hosts.

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As of November 2016, there were 121,678 people waiting for lifesaving organ transplants in the U.S of which 100,791 were awaiting kidney transplants. These human-pig hybrids could reduce these figures by producing organs for transplantation that are similar enough to that of humans.

The lab-grown human-pig hybrids are described, by researchers, as inter-species chimeras.