The pancreas of a mouse was grown in the body of a rat

NHK: in Japan, for the first time in the world, an organ of one animal was grown in the body of another

Igor Belyaev, TASS

A group of scientists from the University of Tokyo was able to grow a healthy pancreas in the body of a rat using mouse stem cells. This was reported by NHK public television.

For the first time in the world, scientists have managed to reproduce the structural part of a living organism at the interspecific level – to grow an organ of one creature in the body of another. After transplantation into the mouse body, the pancreas was fully functioning. According to scientists, the success of this experiment opens up the possibility of growing human organs in animal bodies for subsequent transplantation, but the prospects of such transplantology raise many ethical questions from the international medical community.

The next step of the research team will be an attempt to grow monkey organs in a pig's body. In Japan, the use of human stem cells in animal bodies is allowed for research purposes, but cloning and the creation of artificial living organisms is prohibited by law.

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