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Meet some of the cleanest pigs in the world, bred to grow kidneys and hearts for humans

BLACKSBURG, Virginia (AP) — Wide-eyed piglets rushing to check out visitors to their nondescript barn may represent the future of organ transplantation — and there’s no wallowing in mud involved. The first gene-edited pig organs transplanted into humans came from animals born on this private research farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains. To enter the… Read More »