…with pancreases grown in rats:
“These results demonstrate not only that the rat-grown mouse pancreas is functional, but also that it is readily accepted by the immune system of the genetically matched recipient,” said Nakauchi. “In the future, any human organs generated in this way may also be functional and accepted by the immune system of the patient who donated the pluripotent stem cells.”
These results are exciting, but it’s ultimately a proof of concept if you look at what scientists hope to accomplish in the long term. “Their study is well executed and we’re happy to see the result,” Jun Wu, a research associate at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California who was not involved in the study, told Gizmodo. “But that’s rats and mice. To move to humans you have to take another step forward.” Rats and mice are much closer on an evolutionary scale than say, rats and people, or people and sheep, though scientists are working on growing human cells inside pigs as we speak.
Faster, please.
/puts on Bernie hat.
No, we don’t have a compassionate country. We spend more money on medicine for mice than we do people. Why are we spending all this money on a diabetes cure for mice that only billionaires like Trump can afford. He doesn’t even like mice!
I think hamster wheels are a better solution to the problem of mouse diabetes.