Pigs can save lives

Pigs can grow organs suitable for use in human transplants, offering new hope for transplant patients.

This is according to renowned biologist Du Yutao, who created China’s first cloned piglets, and Yang Huanming, an expert from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Yang led the Chinese research input for the Human Genome Project, an international scientific research project to determine the sequence of nucleotide base pairs that make up human DNA and map the genes of the human genome.

Pigs and humans share some genes, and pigs' organs are similar to ours in size.

Scientists around the world are now studying the possibility of transplanting organs of genetically-modified pigs to humans because it is very likely to save millions of lives.