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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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Autores principales: Bourret, Rodolphe, Martinez, Eric, Vialla, François, Giquel, Chloé, Thonnat-Marin, Aurélie, De Vos, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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