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Pigs with Human Genes

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the everything-but-sweat-glands dept.

LGRiske writes "In a step toward creating herds of pigs that could provide organs for transplanting into humans, Italian researchers manipulated swine sperm to make an animal strain that carries human genes in the heart, liver and kidneys."

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  1. Pigs With Human Genes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1) Oink! 2) ... 3) Profit!

  2. I thought by Blackneto · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Most Policemen were human anyway?

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    Ursula Andress, Catherine Deneuve, and Charo, twice...
  3. tastes like chicken???? by zejackal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So if they've got human DNA do they taste like chicken now... or do they still taste like pork?

  4. Re:Wouldn't it be easier... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yea, especially CowboyNeal :-)

  5. Re:Wouldn't it be easier... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    they already do ... it's called LAPD

  6. my love is legal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    does this mean that i can finally marry
    miss porky my love?! can she give birth
    to my child, too!?!? ;)

  7. I want a great PIG penis and some hair BOARls. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Girls..

    Just you wait.. a few years from now and you won't be laughing. There'll be nothing mini, skinny, or GUINEA about my sausage, lemme tell you.

    So you "just turned 18!", huh ? Guess this is the first time you've been HOG-tied.

    Ah, SOW !

    ~P.

  8. Immediate Application by SecretAsianMan · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    manipulated swine sperm to make an animal strain that carries human genes in the heart
    An immediate application may greatly benefit the offspring of politicians!
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    Washington, DC: It's like Hollywood for ugly people.