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Scalable Fabrication of Stretchable, Dual Channel, Microfluidic Organ Chips
Published on: October 20, 2018
Emerging technologies and ethics-exogenic chimeric humanized organs
Mary G Garry1,2,3,4, Arthur L Caplan5, Daniel J Garry1,2,3,4
1Paul and Sheila Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Abstract:
Organ transplantation is limited due to the scarcity of donor organs. In order to expand the supply of organs for transplantation, interspecies chimeras have been examined as a potential future source of humanized organs. Recent studies using gene editing technologies in combination with somatic cell nuclear transfer technology and hiPSCs successfully engineered humanized skeletal muscle in the porcine embryo. As these technologies progress, there are ethical issues that warrant consideration and dialogue.
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