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Pig Passes Her Glowing Traits to Offspring

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current event by gnifyus on 12 January 2008, tagged as transgenics, organ transplant, and xenotransplantation

Scientists at the Northeast Agricultural University in China are claiming to have successfully completed an experiment in transgenics where a cloned sow has passed an engineered trait of glowing fluorescent green to her young. One reason for this research is to implement a process called xenotransplantation where researchers aspire to create transplantable organs for use in humans from pigs or other animals.

Pigs have been used to supply heart valves for many years due to their anatomical similarity, but actual animal organs are rejected by the human immune system. The ultimate goal from this research is to genetically modify pigs in order to overcome this rejection hurdle and, at the same time, have these engineered traits pass to their offspring such that there will be no shortage of transplantable organs for humans in the future.

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