Quest to Grow Human Organs Inside Pigs in Japan

BBC Science ^ | January 2, 2014 | Rupert Wingfield-Hayes

[lbryce]

I am standing in a fully functioning operating theatre. A surgeon and team of specialists in green smocks are preparing to operate. But I'm not in a hospital. I am on a farm deep in the Japanese countryside. On the gurney about to undergo the knife is a six-month-old female pig.

Standing over her, scalpel in hand, is Professor Nagashima. He carefully cuts open her abdomen and pulls out her uterus. To me, it looks more like intestines - but he assures me this is what a pig's uterus looks like. Then with a syringe and a catheter, he begins to inject 40 embryos into the uterus.

[lbryce]

A lot more there is, than being a Nazi of grammar for forgiving to be encompassed and distributed.

[12th_Monkey]

I haven’t considered the point you are making before. It seems what is being done seems to follow.

But does it cover embryonic STEM cell work?

it also doesn’t address “equity” of such advancements.

[12th_Monkey]

“The reality is that the desperate wealthy are the experimental subjects for the rest of us.”

Great point, I haven’t thought about it in that way.

[zencycler]

FR institute blocks on posters like me just so you don’t have to put up with my admitted warped sense of humor?? Yeah, that’ll happen when pigs fly ... oh wait, that might actually happen then!

[JimRed]

I guess Jews and Muslims will not want to be on the list to receive those organs. Come to think of it, I’ll pass too!

[right way right]

Get a grip.
I was just trying to be funny.

[married21]

We used to say, “Were you raised in a barn?” to people with poor manners. Now we will say “Were you grown in a pig?”