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Human-Animal Chimeras Are Gestating on U.S. Research Farms
A radical new approach to generating human organs is to grow them inside pigs or sheep. By Antonio Regalado.
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I read it a long time ago, but I recall that on the Ghost in the Shell 2 manga it is depicted that in the future, it is common for wealthy individuals to have organ banks within pigs that were genetically engineered with the person´s DNA to eliminate the possibility of organ rejection. Masamune Shirow wrote that in the 90s so the idea must have been floating around for quite some time.