New study brings us one step closer to growing human organs for transplantation

https://phys.org/news/2021-12-closer-human-transplantation.html

"a cross-species chimera—allowing cells from one creature to play a substantial role in the development of another... increasing the chances for a successful transfer by about fivefold... While the previous study showed that human naïve stem cells can differentiate into primordial germ cells... the fully naïve stem cells produced in the present study can also differentiate into extraembryonic tissues... could be used... for developing synthetic embryos... particularly difficult to accomplish... human cells are apparently different"

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