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Humanised kidneys grown inside pigs for the first time (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Prof Dusko Ilic, a stem cell scientist at King’s College London, who was not involved in the research, described the work as pioneering but said any clinical applications would not happen in the foreseeable future. “As the authors admitted, there are plenty of challenges,” he said. “Will this approach prove to be the ultimate solution? Only time holds the answer.”