The public version of growing human organs in animals always features a kidney or a heart. A review published Monday in Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy suggests the first deliverable will be less cinematic and more useful: human blood.
The authors, led by Lin Cheng at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine with co-first authors Yunhan Tang and Ye Feng, close their survey of the field with a specific hypothesis: transfusable human blood products, including white cells, red cells, and platelets, could be generated in pigs for clinical translation in the near future.
