Beijing: Usually the process of development of artificial human organs carried out in artificial media, such as in the laboratory with a special environment. Currently, artificial stem cell technology that can be done in the real animal's body. Telegraph announce on Tuesday (21 / 6), researchers from the University of Tokyo, Japan, succeeded in developing high technology via a pig.
the human body is compared with pig
Stem cells are pluripotent cells derived from embryos. Pluripotent stem cells with a particular technology not only can be developed into specific tissue, but can become an organ. They managed to take advantage of the animal's body as a medium for growing organs from stem cells of other species.
Prof. Hiromitsu Nakauchi, a stem cell expert at the University of Tokyo said that the similarity structure Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid (DNA) of humans, most likely used in pigs.
Prof. Nakauchi said there are several advantages of organs grown from stem cells. The first advantage related to the scarcity of donor organs, so that many patients who died of kidney failure. The reason they do not immediately get a transplant.
The next advantage is about the body's reaction to the rejection of new organs, which has always been a problem in some cases transplantation. By developing organs of their own stem cells, the possibility of rejection by the body believed to be much smaller. In previous trials, the scientists succeeded in growing rat pancreas in mice.
