Profs. Hiroshi NAGASHIMA and others report that transfer of swine blastomeres to transgenic swine embryos defunct in pancreas formation led to healthy swines carrying a normal pancreas. This study is part of the ERATO “Nakauchi stem cell control project” financed by the JST.
Hitomi MATSUNARI et al., PNAS doi:10.1073/pnas.1222902110
Team at University of Tokyo and Meiji University succeeds on pancreas transplantation in swine model