Will Nephilim (Human-Animal) Chimera’s Save The Day?

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Will Nephilim (Human-Animal) Chimera’s Save The Day?

Gene editing is one of the newest and most promising tools of biotechnology, using specific enzymes and RNA segments to precisely create an alternate version of a gene in place of the original. After removing two dozen eggs from a pig’s ovary, Ross works under a microscope, deftly executing a chain of procedures that will cause the unfertilized egg to develop into an embryo. He then uses gene editing to eliminate the gene in each pig embryo that otherwise would cause a pancreas to grow. Next, he injects the embryos with human stem cells, capable of differentiating into any type of cell or tissue in the body. Once embedded in the embryo, the cells should grow into a human pancreas in the very spot where the pig pancreas would have developed.