SCIENTISTS CREATE A SHEEP THAT'S 15% HUMAN
Through injecting human cells into a sheep's fetus, “scientists have created the world's first human-sheep chimera- which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs.†The sheep has approximately 15 percent human cells and 85 percent animal cells.
The sheep will ultimately be used for organ transplants.
The sheep will ultimately be used for organ transplants.
Implications - Scientists plan to make the process suitable for human transplant by extracting stem cells from the donor's bone marrow and implanting them in the peritoneum of a sheep fetus. Then, once the lamb is born, its liver, heart, lungs and brain would have enough human characteristics to make them suitable for transplanting. Oh, what a brave new world that has such wonders in it!
