Cloning pigs without antibodies for human organ transplantation

Italian scientists have succeeded in creating the first pigs without antibodies that prevent the human body from receiving animal organs.

Two cloned pigs.(Photo: newsciencetist)

The project is worth 10 million euros to create 10 new mini pig genes, with the aim of creating pigs that are resistant to the refusal to accept animal organs from human resistance.

These two pigs, named Apollo and Circe, were cloned by scientists from Cremona, Northern Italy's Animal Laboratory from transferred cells from the Massachusetts Hospital, USA. The two pigs weigh only 90 kg while the common pig has an average weight of 200 to 300 kg.

Previously, the likelihood of success of such transplants was usually not high due to the human body's resistance to waste reactions to remove transplanted organ organs from human organs.

Cremona laboratory was the first place in the world to succeed in cloning horses and bulls.