{"id":94270,"date":"2019-07-30T14:42:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T21:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/japan-approves-scientists-plan-to-create-worlds-first-humanimals"},"modified":"2019-07-30T14:42:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T21:42:49","slug":"japan-approves-scientists-plan-to-create-worlds-first-humanimals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/japan-approves-scientists-plan-to-create-worlds-first-humanimals","title":{"rendered":"Japan Approves Scientist\u2019s Plan to Create World\u2019s First Humanimals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japan-approves-scientists-plan-to-create-worlds-first-humanimals3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, a government is supporting a plan to create animal embryos with human cells and bring them to term, resulting in a type of humanimal known as a human-animal chimera.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-02275-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nature<\/a>, a committee from Japan\u2019s science ministry signed off on a request by researchers to grow human pancreases in either rats or mice, the first such experiment to gain approval since a government ban was reversed earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, a government is supporting a plan to create animal embryos with human cells and bring them to term, resulting in a type of humanimal known as a human-animal chimera. According to Nature, a committee from Japan\u2019s science ministry signed off on a request by researchers to grow human pancreases in either [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94270","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}