{"id":182980,"date":"2024-02-18T01:24:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T07:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/startup-clones-three-piglets-gene-hacked-to-have-organs-transplanted-into-humans"},"modified":"2024-02-18T01:24:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T07:24:39","slug":"startup-clones-three-piglets-gene-hacked-to-have-organs-transplanted-into-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/startup-clones-three-piglets-gene-hacked-to-have-organs-transplanted-into-humans","title":{"rendered":"Startup Clones Three Piglets Gene-Hacked to Have Organs Transplanted Into Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/startup-clones-three-piglets-gene-hacked-to-have-organs-transplanted-into-humans2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japanese startup PorMedTec says it\u2019s have cloned three piglets with the express purpose of having their organs be viable for transplantation to humans, without being rejected by the immune system.<\/p>\n<p>The company imported gene-edited cells from a US biotech startup called eGenesis and used them to create genetically modified embryos, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2024\/02\/13\/japan\/science-health\/pig-organ-transplant\/\" class=\"\"><em>Japan Times<\/em> reports<\/a>, which were then implanted into the uterus of a pig.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe realization of xenotransplantation has been long awaited in Japan for several years, but it remained in the basic research stage because pigs that could withstand clinical application were still under development,\u201d the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese startup PorMedTec says it\u2019s have cloned three piglets with the express purpose of having their organs be viable for transplantation to humans, without being rejected by the immune system. The company imported gene-edited cells from a US biotech startup called eGenesis and used them to create genetically modified embryos, the Japan Times reports, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182980","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}