animals: The controversial experiment will be used to try and farm human organs inside living animals for transplant, potentially creating an unlimited supply, according to Asahi Shimbun. But there are concerns scientists won't be able to control how much of the animal becomes human, and fears their brains could develop like people's. Scientists based in Tokyo have been given the Japanese government's approval to grow hybrid embryos to be brought to full term. The team's progress is world-leading in the field, with most other countries either forbidding this kind of work or refusing to give scientists the money to do it. He believes he could grow a human pancreas by putting stem cells inside another mammal, such as a pig, and use it to cure diabetes in a human patient. Researchers in Japan and California say they could one day grow human-sized organs by adding human stem cells to the embryos of mammals which would then use the cells to grow organs made of human tissue in the womb Professor Hiromitsu Nakauchi, who is leading the research, has been testing his theory in labs for years, waiting for the go-ahead to try it in real life.
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