Genetic breakthrough!
Scientists have created the world's first human-sheep chimera, which has the body of a sheep and human organs. The sheep have 15% human cells and 85% animal cells, the evolution of which brings the prospect of animal organs being transplanted into humans one step closer.
The technique involves injecting adult human cells into sheep's foetus. A sheep liver having a large proportion of human cells has been already created, fuelling hopes to precisely match a sheep to a transplant patient, using their own stem cells to create their own flock of sheep. The process would involve extracting stem cells from the donor's bone marrow and injecting them into the peritoneum of the sheep's foetus. When the lamb is born and becomes two months old, it would have a liver, heart, lungs and brain that are partly human and available for transplant.
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