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Pigs may soon donate organs to humans

After decades of research, pigs could be considered as organ donors for human beings.

A team of Harvard scientists engineered pig tissue so that it could not be rejected by the human body using a technology known as Crispr where a bacterially derived protein to cut-away a particular gene is replaced or repaired by another molecule introduced at the same time.

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