facility of the university, it's the visitors who need to wash up, explains animal scientist professor richard macca. >> you're telling me i need to shower up, disrobe, to visit our pigs? >> to meet a pig? >> absolutely. >> we are sparkling clean and ready to meet our pigs. looks just like a pig. >> it looks, sounds, acts, identical to a normal pig. >> reporter: but it is different. genetically. to create this pig, scientists here added an e. coli bacteria gene and mouse dna to a normal pig embryo. they call it an enviral pig. >> eventually the idea is that someone like this could end up on a dinner plate? >> certainly one of the goals of the it technology is to produce a pig which could be consumed by humans and enter the food chain. we have done extensive testing on the various internal organs