Japanese scientists step forward in healing deadly diseases

A team of Japanese scientists have claimed to be developing pigs with genetic changes to human transplantation.

Pigs are the first animals to develop for xenotransplantation, in which animal origs and tissues have been transplanted into successful people.

The team, which includes researchers from the University of Meiy and Kyot University, hopes to supply pigs to a private company early next year, reports Japan's “Yomir Shimbun”.

According to the results, pigs are suitable for the study and treatment of human diseases, reports “DalyMail”, Periscopi broadcast.

Study leader Hiroshi Nagasima, a professor at the University of Meiy, has spent many years changing genetics in pigs as a model for treating human genetic diseases.

Now, he's developing the idea of how to grow organs inside the body of pigs that could be used for human transplants.

To do this, scientists begin by collecting pluuripotent stem cells from a patient.

Scientists then inject human stem cells into the embryos of “swine projectors” that had been genetically altered in order to develop a pancreas./Periscopi/