{"id":171536,"date":"2023-09-07T13:27:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T18:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-grow-human-kidneys-inside-pigs-using-stem-cells"},"modified":"2023-09-07T13:27:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T18:27:08","slug":"scientists-grow-human-kidneys-inside-pigs-using-stem-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-grow-human-kidneys-inside-pigs-using-stem-cells","title":{"rendered":"Scientists grow human kidneys inside pigs using stem cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/19QpT_uAIE8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, scientists produced human kidneys out of chimeric embryos containing a mix of pig cells and human stem cells. The same technique can be used to produce heart and pancreas.<\/p>\n<p>A team of Chinese researchers has successfully grown early-stage developing human kidneys into female pigs using chimeric embryos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first time a solid human organ has been grown inside an animal species other than humans,\u201d Liangxue Lai, senior study author and a biologist at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, told Interesting Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, scientists produced human kidneys out of chimeric embryos containing a mix of pig cells and human stem cells. The same technique can be used to produce heart and pancreas. A team of Chinese researchers has successfully grown early-stage developing human kidneys into female pigs using chimeric embryos. \u201cThis is the first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}