The practice, which has prompted furious backlash from animal rights campaigners in recent years, is already allowed for research purposes in the UK and US.
STEPHEN MATTHEWS: ‘Controversial plans to grow human organs inside the bodies of animals have moved one step closer to going ahead in Japan… animal welfare campaigners warn the experiments to grow human organs inside animals echo the fictional horror story… Government officials in the Asian country are expected to overturn their current ban on the practice by the autumn, according to local reports. The practice, which has prompted furious backlash from animal rights campaigners in recent years, is already allowed for research purposes in the UK and US.
Some Japanese biologists have left the country to pursue experiments, which critics consider ‘gruesome’, across the Pacific Ocean because of the ban… Professor Hiromitsu Nakauchi, a geneticist at Stanford University in California, hopes to create a human pancreas inside a pig, if the ban in Japan is lifted. He and fellow scientists have already reversed diabetes in mice by giving them an organ grown in a different species – rats. Professor Nakauchi moved from the University of Tokyo to Stanford to work on the experimental project’. SOURCE…
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