In what can be said a possible solution to severe organ shortage, scientists have successfully grown a humanised kidney inside pig. This is the first time the scientists have been able to grow a human organ inside another species.
As per the study, which has been published in the scientific journal Cell Stem Cell, human-pig chimeric embryos, comprising both human and pig cells, were developed. These embryos were implanted in surrogate pig mothers and grew kidneys containing mostly human cells that had a normal structure after 28 days of development. As per the lead researcher, there were also pig cells in the humanized kidney but human cells dominated and comprised 60 to 70% of the total cells.
