作为全球最大的猪肉生产商,史密斯菲尔德食品公司的野心可不只限于将猪肉做成食品,他们还打算供应猪器官用于人体移植,并已展开相关研究。如果能够通过基因编辑去除猪的病毒基因并攻克人体免疫系统排斥问题,“人面兽心”有一天将会成为现实。
Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork producer, doesn't just raise pigs to be eaten.
作为全球最大的猪肉生产商,史密斯菲尔德食品公司养猪可不仅仅是为了做成食品。
The company announced lately that it plans to explore the possibility of using its hogs for medical purposes, including growing tissue and organs that can be transplanted into humans.
该公司日前宣布计划探索在医疗领域利用猪的可能性,如利用猪生长可以移植到人类体中的组织和器官。
There hasn't yet been a successful transplant of a pig organ into a human, but recent scientific breakthroughs and advanced technology such as gene-editing tools are making the possibility more likely.
虽然目前尚未出现成功将猪器官移植到人身上的案例,但最近的科学突破和基因编辑工具等先进技术的出现,正在提高这一设想成功的可能性。
To use pig parts - like hearts or lungs - for human transplants, scientists have to edit certain genes to make the organs viable.
为了使猪的器官 Courtney Stanton, VP of Smithfield Bioscience, tells Business Insider that the company hopes to use certain pig parts that usually go to waste, like hearts, to develop organs for humans.
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