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A Japanese venture-led team has successfully bred three genetically modified pigs for use in human organ and cell transplants for the first time in Japan, which is struggling with donor shortages, the company says.
The move comes as Japan struggles with organ donor shortages, with just 3 per cent of those registered for a transplant receiving them.
Japanese researchers said they have produced three piglets cloned from a pig that was genetically modified to prevent rejection of its organs in transplants to humans.
The Japanese company PorMedTec Co. Ltd, working under the auspices of the Meiji University International Institute for Bio-Resource Research,...
A Japanese venture-led team has successfully bred three genetically modified pigs for use in human organ and cell transplants for the first time in Japan, which is struggling with donor shortages, the company said Tuesday. But the safety of such cross-species transplantation will be investigated with further animal testing for…