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2009-07-09 | permalink
U.S. GE pigs to aid Chinese research into xenotransplantation
FOUR genetically engineered pigs from Harvard University in the United States are to be sent to a Chinese hospital in the southwestern Sichuan Province for use in pig-to-monkey organ transplant experiments, a doctor said yesterday. The Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital and Harvard University signed an agreement on Wednesday and the four pigs should arrive in China within three to six months, Yang Hongji, director of the hospital’s Clinical Organ Transplantation Center, said.
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2009-07-09 | permalink
U.S. GE pigs to aid Chinese research into xenotransplantation
FOUR genetically engineered pigs from Harvard University in the United States are to be sent to a Chinese hospital in the southwestern Sichuan Province for use in pig-to-monkey organ transplant experiments, a doctor said yesterday. The Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital and Harvard University signed an agreement on Wednesday and the four pigs should arrive in China within three to six months, Yang Hongji, director of the hospital’s Clinical Organ Transplantation Center, said.
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