Tiny Human Hearts Grown in Pig Embryos For the First Time (nature.com) 19
Scientists have successfully grown beating human hearts inside pig embryos for the first time, marking a significant advance in developing human-animal chimeras for potential organ transplantation. The hybrid embryos survived for 21 days, during which the fingertip-sized hearts began beating, according to findings presented at the International Society for Stem Cell Research meeting in Hong Kong.
Researchers -- led by Lai Liangxue at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health -- reprogrammed human stem cells to survive in pigs and introduced them into pig embryos with two heart development genes knocked out. The human cells, tagged with luminescent biomarkers, were visible glowing within the developing hearts.
Researchers -- led by Lai Liangxue at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health -- reprogrammed human stem cells to survive in pigs and introduced them into pig embryos with two heart development genes knocked out. The human cells, tagged with luminescent biomarkers, were visible glowing within the developing hearts.
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It's bad enough that they can be stuck with up to four wives.
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They did that to themselves. The Mormons as well. Many religions include an element of suffering, so that its followers do not have time or leisure to think about what they are doing.
So... (Score:3)
China surpassing the USA again? (Score:3, Interesting)
In the USA, the embryos will probably qualify as human lives and ban this...
Musk would start up a company around this to produce more of his children since he can't find women willing to help him with that anymore.
Trump will see the white piggies and make an exemption for white genocide victims and give them citizenship in an odd collaboration with PETA "saving" the embryos from the lab.
My question is, how much will this change the taste of the pig? I read from 2 cannibal interviews that humans taste most like pork.
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Musk would start up a company around this to produce more of his children since he can't find women willing to help him with that anymore.
You would be shocked how easy it would be for him to find women willing to have his babies, even now. Women have high standards, but "lots of money" beats most of them.
Re: China surpassing the USA again? (Score:2)
"Honest question"
You have never in slashdot history asked one of those
Re:China surpassing the USA again? (Score:5, Insightful)
In this case, yes it's the first time human hearts have been grown in a pig embryo. They only lasted 21 days and were not stable, so we're not sure if this is viable as the pig may not be viable before it grows a full human heart. In short, interesting science, far from deployable. However this is just a method to reach the same end goal already being achieved in the West.
University of Maryland Doctors perform the Second transplant of a pig heart into a human [umaryland.edu]. In the first case, the patient was a brain dead but alive human who donated their body to science. In this second case, the patients had terminal heart disease; he was going to die anyways so they volunteered for this. The second patient survived about 10 months. These hearts come from pigs that have been gene editing to remove certain pig traits that a human body would identify and reject the organ. There's a British company called Genus PLC [genusplc.com] already working on these things.
So don't believe the hyperbole in science papers.
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But they also had a serious brain drain during the cultural revolution by wiping out all the teachers.
Cultural revolution was ended 49 years ago and while some small number of teachers were killed most survived, definitely not "wiped out". University entrance exam was resumed in 1978 with no shortage or students or teachers or professors to teach the students.
These hearts come from pigs that have been gene editing to remove certain pig traits that a human body would identify and reject the organ
Can;t you not tell the differences between these prior research and "reprogrammed human stem cells to survive in pigs and introduced them into pig embryos with two heart development genes knocked out" technique applied in this new research?
So don't believe the hyperbole in science papers.
And don't be
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The cultural revolution shut down education for some time. The generation being trained during that period had no outside education, because they were a closed society during that time, and curricula were altered to fit the CCP's agenda. For example, the CCP labeled the Theory of Relativity as reactionary and bourgeois [degruyterbrill.com]. A whole generation of intellectual thought was lost because of CCP's control, most of which is now back decades later because of Chinese scient
Hannibal Pigster (Score:1)
Must ... Resist ... Trump ... Jokes
I left my heart in (Score:2)
San Puerco.
In future chimera news ... (Score:2)
First there were human parts in pigs, then bear parts, then... Al Gore's nightmare [fandom.com] ...
We already have that (Score:2)
bacon wrapped hamburger steak
Sounds borderline unethical (Score:2)
I am trying to see if this is ethical, I guess as long as the pig isn't suffering it's fine. Sounds a bit shady to grow an animal for organ harvesting, but then how is that worse than farming? I suppose with farming the sentience gets to experience some amount of life.
Excellent! (Score:2)
Now maybe they can grow one for Trump and his Musk Ox.