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Human–animal chimeras: ethical issues about farming chimeric animals bearing human organs
Recent advances in stem cells and gene engineering have paved the way for the generation of interspecies chimeras, such as animals bearing an organ from another species. The production of a rat pancreas by a mouse has demonstrated the feasibility of this approach. The next step will be the generatio...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4928294/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27356872 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13287-016-0345-9 |