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Scientists create human-pig hybrid

2017-01-27
scientists have created a human Pig hybrid you never know what people strive to achieve some want to paint others want to be president and others want to create human animal hybrid creatures scientists at the Salk Institute injected a pig blastocyst with human cells a blastocyst is that mass of cells that occurs after the fertilization of an egg but before it is classified as an embryo the blastocyst were placed back into pigs and the embryos removed three to four weeks later for analysis a total of 186 were collected this is the first successful human animal hybrid ever made okay so why on earth would anyone decide to do this other than attempting to create a real-life Porky Pig the paper explaining all of this was published in the journal Cell the researchers say this could be used to study human development and disease additionally this could produce functional human tissues other attempts to create a hybrid have used mice as the host animal the scientists say that using undulates like pigs and sheep could help in designing new drug screening methods for those of you wondering the Salk Institute did not receive any government funding for this project any money used for this project was through private donors for more information check out cnet.com I'm Maya's act RN that's all folks
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