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http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/news/4249734-smithfield-makes-move-market-pig-human-transplants (http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/news/4249734-smithfield-makes-move-market-pig-human-transplants)
Smithfield makes move on market for pig-human transplants
By Reuters Media (http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/users/reuters-media-0)
Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork producer, has established a separate bioscience unit to expand its role in supplying pig parts for medical uses, with the ultimate goal of selling pig organs for transplantation into humans.
Routine pig-human organ transplants are years away, but recent scientific advances are breaking down barriers that frustrated prior attempts to use pigs as a ready supply of replacement parts for sick or injured people, making it an attractive new market…