GM cloned piglets in China 'bring transplant hope for humans'
New Delhi, Mar 23 : Chinese scientists hope the country''s first group of genetically modified (GM) cloned piglets could help in the successful transplant of animal organs into humans.
“The genetically modified piglets could bring hope to people who are in need of organ transplants but have failed to find a donor,” the Nanjing-based Yangtze Evening Post quoted Zhao Zijian, head of the Metabolic Disease Research Center at Nanjing Medical University, as saying.
His research group has been studying GM technology since 1998 in the hope of replacing the gene in pigs that causes humans to reject transplanted pig organs, reports China Daily.
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