Should We Grow Human Organs In Pigs?

To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:

• Organ transplantation - surgically transferring an organ from one person into another.
• Xenotransplantation - transplanting organs between members of different species.
• Transplant rejection - when the organ recipient’s immune system destroys transplanted tissue.
• Pluripotent stem cells - embryonic cells that can give rise to all the different types of cells that make up the body.
• CRISPR - a genome editing tool that allows scientists to modify genes in living cells.

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