{"id":76135,"date":"2018-02-22T01:26:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T09:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/scientists-just-made-sheep-human-hybrids-heres-what-you-need-to-know"},"modified":"2018-02-25T11:09:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T19:09:10","slug":"scientists-just-made-sheep-human-hybrids-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/scientists-just-made-sheep-human-hybrids-heres-what-you-need-to-know","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Made Sheep-Human Hybrids. Here\u2019s What You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-made-sheep-human-hybrids-heres-what-you-need-to-know.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have achieved a new kind of chimeric first, producing sheep-human hybrid embryos that could one day represent the future of organ donation \u2013 by using body parts grown inside unnatural, engineered animals.<\/p>\n<p>With that end goal in mind, scientists have created the first interspecies sheep-human chimera, introducing human stem cells into sheep embryos, resulting in a hybrid creature that\u2019s more than 99 percent sheep \u2013 but also a tiny, little bit like you and me.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, the human portion of the embryos created in the experiment \u2013 before they were destroyed after 28 days \u2013 is exceedingly small, but the fact it exists at all is what generates considerable controversy in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/it-s-alive-the-first-human-pig-hybrid-has-been-created-in-the-lab\">this field of research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-engineered-sheep-human-hybrids-first-time-stem-cell-chimera\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-engineered-sheep-hum...ll-chimera<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have achieved a new kind of chimeric first, producing sheep-human hybrid embryos that could one day represent the future of organ donation \u2013 by using body parts grown inside unnatural, engineered animals. With that end goal in mind, scientists have created the first interspecies sheep-human chimera, introducing human stem cells into sheep embryos, resulting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76135","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76169,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76135\/revisions\/76169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}