Tiny Human Hearts Grown in Pig Embryos For the First Time (nature.com)

(Friday June 13, 2025 @11:22AM (msmash) from the marching-ahead dept.)

Reference: 0178039451
News link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/06/13/152206/tiny-human-hearts-grown-in-pig-embryos-for-the-first-time
Source link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01854-x

Scientists have successfully [1]grown beating human hearts inside pig embryos for the first time, marking a significant advance in developing human-animal chimeras for potential organ transplantation. The hybrid embryos survived for 21 days, during which the fingertip-sized hearts began beating, according to findings presented at the International Society for Stem Cell Research meeting in Hong Kong.

Researchers -- led by Lai Liangxue at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health -- reprogrammed human stem cells to survive in pigs and introduced them into pig embryos with two heart development genes knocked out. The human cells, tagged with luminescent biomarkers, were visible glowing within the developing hearts.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01854-x

Sucks (Score:1)

by Anonymous Coward

to be Muslim.

So... (Score:3)

by abulafia ( 7826 )

Snack size?

China surpassing the USA again? (Score:3, Interesting)

by bussdriver ( 620565 )

In the USA, the embryos will probably qualify as human lives and ban this...

Musk would start up a company around this to produce more of his children since he can't find women willing to help him with that anymore.

Trump will see the white piggies and make an exemption for white genocide victims and give them citizenship in an odd collaboration with PETA "saving" the embryos from the lab.

My question is, how much will this change the taste of the pig? I read from 2 cannibal interviews that humans taste most like pork.

Re: (Score:2)

by RobinH ( 124750 )