Sentences with phrase «pig models of human diseases»
The technology also has the potential to knock out specific genes to create pig models of human diseases.
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The pig model of HD also more closely matches the symptoms of the human disease.
The pigs showed both movement problems and respiratory difficulties common to human patients, and it is hoped that this model will assist in the creation of new treatments for Huntington's — a genetically inherited and fatal disease which affects tens of thousands of people.
If the marriage of stem cells and CRISPR follows a similar path, it might not be long before pigs have enough Homo sapiens in them not only to grow human hearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys for transplant but also to model human diseases more closely than current lab animals do and to test experimental drugs.
The pig model of HD, published yesterday in Cell, also more closely matches the symptoms of the human disease.
Researchers have used CRISPR to develop a pig model of Huntington's disease that better mimics how the disease progresses in humans.