Thursday, March 29, 2007

Scientists create a sheep that's 15% human

The only thing strange about this is that it happened in Nevada, not Scotland or Australia.
Scientists have created the world's first human-sheep chimera - which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs.

The sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells - and their evolution brings the prospect of animal organs being transplanted into humans one step closer...

(Professor Esmail Zanjani) has already created a sheep liver which has a large proportion of human cells and eventually hopes to precisely match a sheep to a transplant patient, using their own stem cells to create their own flock of sheep.

1 comment:

List with Laszlo said...

and there was great rejoicing in Appalachia!!