Growing Human Kidneys in Rats Sparks Ethical Debate

Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - 00:30 in Biology & Nature

It sounds like the plot from a science fiction film: A scientist takes a kidney from a human fetus, implants it in a rat and allows the organ to grow. But researchers in a new study have done exactly that, in the hopes that someday human organs grown in a

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