Genetically modified pig lungs or lab-grown lungs: Which is the future of our organ supply?
Biotech pioneer J. Craig Venter has aligned his company with efforts to create genetically modified lungs in pigs for human transplant. It's an idea for improving the organ supply that has been around for nearly a decade, and it is racing efforts to grow human organs in labs without an animal host.
Source: geneticliteracyproject.org