'Cultivation of human organs in pigs' bodies

Scientists at the University of Tokyo, Japan have announced that they can cultivate any organ within a body of another species by injecting the stem cells of an organ that needs to be fed into embryos. Pregnancy of replacement species.

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This technique allows the development of an organ in a pig's body by injecting the patient's stem cells into the pig's body instead, in order to grow a healthy organ for cases. transplant organs later.

Pigs born to human blood can be produced by injecting blood stem cells from humans into pig embryos, helping to create abundant blood supply for blood replacement surgeries.(Photo: Dailymail).

The current scarcity of organ donation means many patients have to wait a long time to be transplanted.Developing organs that need transplanting from the same stem cells of the right patient can help reduce the risk of transplant organs that will be incompatible with the body after surgery, which can further create internal supply. Abundance of organs .

To carry out the study, the scientists injected kangaroo stem cells into genetically modified mouse embryos to produce mice that carry kangaroo organs. Previously, mice were genetically engineered to be unable to have their own spleen, which produced many important hormones, including insulin.

When mice reach adulthood, they develop healthy spleen organs from kangaroo stem cells, and do not have diabetes. That is, kangaroo stem cells grew into spleen in the spleen of the mouse.

The team claims any organ can be produced this way. Doing the same with human stem cells on pigs will help create human spleen on pigs, in order to develop an alternative spleen for diabetic patients.

Professor Hiromitsu Nakauchi, director of the Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Tokyo, said: ' Our ultimate goal is to produce human organs from cells. Multi-sensory root - is a pluripotent stem cell developed from normal cells '.

' This method, called embryo supplementation therapy, helps us create a new supply of abundant organs .'

Professor Nakauchi hopes they will be able to use this technique to ' grow ' more human organs, such as producing pigs that can produce human blood by injecting human blood cells. into pig fetus.

The world medical community is very sympathetic to this new method.

Dr. Chris Mason, head of the Department of Reconstructive Medicine at the University of London, said: ' This is a potentially fascinating solution for human organ transplant surgery .'